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Publication helps you maintain public-api-friendly modules by preventing unintentional access to private implementation details via introspection.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

publication has 7.6M monthly downloads and 43 GitHub stars. Version 0.0.3, first published in 2018.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2019.

It is used by 761 tracked packages, including aws-cdk-asset-awscli-v1, jsii and constructs.

Downloads
Day
231.8K
Week
1.7M
Month
7.6M
Stars
43
Forks
6
Issues
3
Version
0.0.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
10
Popularity
31
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2729 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,628,151
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
7,628,151
Stars
43
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
240,670
Month daily avg
254,272
Momentum
-5.3%
((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
MIT 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
2729 days ago
Total releases
3
Releases/year
0.4
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
7,628,151
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
30
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
50.0%
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 130.2K
macOS 320
Windows 154

Python Versions

3.11
42.3% 51.1K
3.14
18.8% 22.7K
3.13
17.8% 21.5K
3.12
11.9% 14.4K
3.9
9.2% 11.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
119.0K
2. IE IE
4.2K
3. DE DE
3.2K
4. JP JP
1.2K
5. GB GB
740
6. AU AU
697
7. NL NL
372
8. SG SG
342
9. SE SE
305
10. IN IN
124

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
July 9, 2018
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
7 years ago
Latest Version
0.0.3
Total Releases
3
Contributors
3
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Glyph
Python Versions
2 3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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