PyRank
beartype

plum-dispatch

Multiple dispatch in Python
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plum-dispatch has 1.6M monthly downloads and 646 GitHub stars. Version 2.9.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.

It is built on top of beartype, rich and typing-extensions. It is used by 102 tracked packages, including pyserde, fastai and fasttransform.

GitHub topics include multiple-dispatch.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (beartype/plum) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
62.9K
Week
391.2K
Month
1.6M
Stars
646
Forks
28
Issues
43
Version
2.9.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
53
Adoption
80
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,578,752
• 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
1,578,752
Stars
646
Stars per 1k downloads
0.41
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
55,889
Month daily avg
52,625
Momentum
+6.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
• 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
69 days ago
Total releases
76
Releases/year
10.7
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
17
Monthly downloads
1,578,752
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
45
 
Issue Burden
66.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
60.7%
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 24.6K
Windows 914
macOS 634

Python Versions

3.9
31.3% 8.0K
3.12
29.8% 7.6K
3.10
23.1% 5.9K
3.11
9.9% 2.5K
3.13
5.9% 1.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
13.9K
2. IE IE
8.0K
3. SG SG
2.4K
4. CN CN
540
5. NL NL
411
6. PL PL
158
7. DE DE
142
8. IN IN
106
9. GB GB
103
10. BR BR
85
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 12, 2019
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.9.0
Total Releases
76
Contributors
17
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 py3
Keywords
multiple dispatch
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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