Monthly downloads
11.8M
Weekly downloads
2.5M
GitHub stars
92
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.9
Licence
BSD-3-Clause
Last Release
9 months ago
Author
Mike McKerns
First Release
January 14, 2015
Total Releases
16
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 264 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
90
Popularity
39
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
11,839,983
•
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
11,839,983
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
360,919
Month daily avg
394,666
Momentum
-8.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
270 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
11,839,983
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
32
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
264d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
322.2K
Windows
976
macOS
425
Python Versions
3.9
58.1%
180.4K
3.7
27.3%
84.7K
3.12
5.5%
17.1K
3.10
5.4%
16.8K
3.11
3.7%
11.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
298.1K
US
2.
JP
4.3K
JP
3.
IE
3.3K
IE
4.
IN
2.9K
IN
5.
DE
2.3K
DE
6.
GB
2.2K
GB
7.
SG
1.6K
SG
8.
CA
1.6K
CA
9.
ZA
1.4K
ZA
10.
CH
1.3K
CH
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
-
dill>=0.4.1[dill]extra == "dill"
Used By
11
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- refactoringidioms 550/mo
- a-piece-of-shit 211/mo
- pymds 171/mo
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- dappier-py 89/mo
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Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh