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prompt-toolkit

ptpython

A better Python REPL
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

ptpython has 1.9M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 3.0.32 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is built on top of appdirs, jedi and prompt-toolkit. It is used by 48 tracked packages, including osxphotos, ptipython and hypha.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (prompt-toolkit/ptpython) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
34.6K
Week
322.9K
Month
1.9M
Stars
5.4K
Forks
292
Issues
242
Version
3.0.32

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
76
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
227 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,855,925
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
1,855,925
Stars
5,443
Stars per 1k downloads
2.93
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
46,123
Month daily avg
61,864
Momentum
-25.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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 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
227 days ago
Total releases
79
Releases/year
6.7
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
58
Monthly downloads
1,855,925
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
56
 
Issue Burden
44.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.9%
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 8.6K
macOS 1.3K
Windows 550

Python Versions

3.11
28.6% 2.9K
3.12
27.8% 2.8K
3.10
17.8% 1.8K
3.14
16.5% 1.6K
3.13
9.3% 931

Top Countries

1. US US
8.6K
2. JP JP
339
3. DE DE
303
4. FR FR
211
5. HK HK
86
6. IE IE
86
7. FI FI
82
8. BR BR
77
9. CH CH
73
10. SE SE
71

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
September 29, 2014
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
3.0.32
Total Releases
79
Contributors
58
Open PRs
22
Archived
No
Author
Jonathan Slenders
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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