No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
petl has 1M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.7.19, first published in 2011.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is used by 18 tracked packages, including frictionless, parsons and rowgenerators.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
66
Adoption
90
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
34 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,005,233
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
1,005,233
Stars
1,312
Stars per 1k downloads
1.31
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
37,541
Month daily avg
33,508
Momentum
+12.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,>=2.7
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
MIT 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
35 days ago
Total releases
94
Releases/year
6.4
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
53
Monthly downloads
1,005,233
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
65
Issue Burden
61.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.9%
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
37.1K
Windows
128
macOS
47
Python Versions
3.12
65.3%
23.7K
3.7
17.6%
6.4K
3.11
12.1%
4.4K
3.10
2.5%
912
3.9
2.5%
910
Top Countries
1.
US
35.1K
US
2.
IE
1.4K
IE
3.
HK
272
HK
4.
NL
192
NL
5.
SG
144
SG
6.
JP
103
JP
7.
GB
78
GB
8.
DE
71
DE
9.
CN
38
CN
10.
AU
36
AU
Dependencies
0
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
December 1, 2011
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.7.19
Total Releases
94
Contributors
53
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
Alistair Miles
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh