No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
ppft has 18.1M monthly downloads and 92 GitHub stars. Version 1.7.8 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is used by 13 tracked packages, including pathos, pyneuroml and neuromllite.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 153 days despite active commits
- Moderate bus factor: only 3 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
39
Adoption
80
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,103,620
•
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
18,103,620
Stars
92
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
•
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
610,191
Month daily avg
603,454
Momentum
+1.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
169 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.4
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
3
Monthly downloads
18,103,620
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
31
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
153d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
458.1K
Windows
1.3K
macOS
510
Python Versions
3.7
55.9%
243.1K
3.9
26.0%
113.0K
3.8
7.0%
30.6K
3.11
6.2%
26.9K
3.10
5.0%
21.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
416.7K
US
2.
IE
10.2K
IE
3.
JP
8.1K
JP
4.
IN
3.6K
IN
5.
GB
3.2K
GB
6.
DE
3.1K
DE
7.
KR
2.5K
KR
8.
SG
2.5K
SG
9.
CA
1.7K
CA
10.
ZA
1.7K
ZA
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
- dill[dill]
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
January 14, 2015
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.7.8
Total Releases
16
Contributors
3
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Mike McKerns
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh