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pep8-naming

Naming Convention checker for Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pep8-naming has 2.6M monthly downloads and 532 GitHub stars. Version 0.15.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance, last released in May 2025.

It is built on top of flake8. It is used by 23 tracked packages, including prospector, python-dev-tools and ni-python-styleguide.

GitHub topics include naming-conventions, pep8 and linter-plugin.

Downloads
Day
72.8K
Week
567.6K
Month
2.6M
Stars
532
Forks
265
Issues
19
Version
0.15.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
62
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
427 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,610,454
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
• At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,610,454
Stars
532
Stars per 1k downloads
0.20
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
81,091
Month daily avg
87,015
Momentum
-6.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Expat license
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
• Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
428 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
2.3
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
• Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
65
Monthly downloads
2,610,454
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
66
 
Issue Burden
35.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 45.9K
Windows 932
macOS 500

Python Versions

3.12
39.7% 16.0K
3.9
25.7% 10.4K
3.11
14.9% 6.0K
3.10
13.6% 5.5K
3.13
6.0% 2.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
40.4K
2. SG SG
1.5K
3. CN CN
995
4. DE DE
772
5. IE IE
770
6. NL NL
688
7. AU AU
471
8. RU RU
305
9. CA CA
301
10. HK HK
292
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Expat license
First Release
February 22, 2013
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.15.1
Total Releases
31
Contributors
65
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Florent Xicluna
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
flake8 pep8 naming
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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