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plyfile

NumPy-based text/binary PLY file reader/writer for Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

plyfile has 1.1M monthly downloads and 514 GitHub stars. Version 1.1.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2015.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of numpy. It is used by 68 tracked packages, including python-pycg, gaussian-splatting and amaazetools.

GitHub topics include numpy, numeric-data and ply-files.

Downloads
Day
27.2K
Week
238.6K
Month
1.1M
Stars
514
Forks
82
Issues
0
Version
1.1.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
57
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
40 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,132,155
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
1,132,155
Stars
514
Stars per 1k downloads
0.45
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
34,086
Month daily avg
37,738
Momentum
-9.7%
((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
GNU General Public License v3.0
• 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
40 days ago
Total releases
20
Releases/year
1.8
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
12
Monthly downloads
1,132,155
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
43
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
11.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.6%
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 16.7K
Windows 1.5K
macOS 295

Python Versions

3.12
38.4% 6.6K
3.10
27.6% 4.8K
3.11
22.6% 3.9K
3.13
8.6% 1.5K
3.8
2.9% 500

Top Countries

1. US US
13.9K
2. SG SG
687
3. DE DE
460
4. CN CN
369
5. JP JP
350
6. KR KR
335
7. CA CA
274
8. IN IN
214
9. GB GB
191
10. FR FR
170
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
GNU General Public License v3.0
First Release
April 19, 2015
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.1.4
Total Releases
20
Contributors
12
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
ply numpy
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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