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ptyprocess

Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

ptyprocess has 209.3M monthly downloads and 239 GitHub stars. Version 0.7.0, first published in 2014.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2020.

It is used by 307 tracked packages, including terminado, mistral-vibe and aider-chat.

Downloads
Day
5.6M
Week
41.7M
Month
209.3M
Stars
239
Forks
73
Issues
16
Version
0.7.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
52
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
354 days ago
Monthly downloads
209,272,830
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
209,272,830
Stars
239
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
5,960,914
Month daily avg
6,975,761
Momentum
-14.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
ISC License (ISCL)
• 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
2016 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
0.9
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
20
Monthly downloads
209,272,830
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
62
 
Issue Burden
66.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1661d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.9M
macOS 75.2K
Windows 19.8K

Python Versions

3.10
39.5% 1.4M
3.11
30.0% 1.1M
3.12
17.8% 626.4K
3.13
8.9% 313.8K
3.14
3.9% 137.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
3.3M
2. IE IE
158.0K
3. SG SG
110.8K
4. DE DE
81.1K
5. NL NL
41.7K
6. IN IN
38.1K
7. GB GB
37.0K
8. FR FR
25.8K
9. CA CA
24.3K
10. JP JP
23.1K

Package Information

License
ISC License (ISCL)
First Release
October 3, 2014
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
11 months ago
Latest Version
0.7.0
Total Releases
10
Contributors
20
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Thomas Kluyver
Python Versions
2.7 3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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