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Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=2.7
Licence
Mostly MIT, some GPL/BSD, see LICENSE-pwntools.txt
Last Release
1 year ago
First Release
July 27, 2014
Total Releases
122
Python Versions
2.7
3
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 325 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
87
Adoption
65
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
43 days ago
Monthly downloads
329,079
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
329,079
Stars
13,768
Stars per 1k downloads
41.84
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
10,320
Month daily avg
10,969
Momentum
-5.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7
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
Mostly MIT, some GPL/BSD, see LICENSE-pwntools.txt
•
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
369 days ago
Total releases
122
Releases/year
10.0
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
289
Monthly downloads
329,079
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
78
Issue Burden
6.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
325d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
14.2K
Windows
399
macOS
165
Python Versions
3.10
40.0%
5.3K
3.12
25.3%
3.4K
3.11
12.5%
1.7K
3.13
12.3%
1.6K
3.8
9.9%
1.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
9.2K
US
2.
SG
2.4K
SG
3.
CN
596
CN
4.
IN
296
IN
5.
DE
222
DE
6.
NL
201
NL
7.
CA
179
CA
8.
HK
171
HK
9.
JP
149
JP
10.
FR
94
FR
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars *
Dependencies
22
- capstone >=3.0.5rc2
-
colored-traceback
<0.4
python_version < "3"
- intervaltree >=3.0
- mako >=1.0.0
- packaging
- paramiko >=1.15.2
-
pathlib2
python_version < "3.4"
- pip >=6.0.8
- psutil >=3.3.0
-
pyelftools
<0.30,>=0.29
python_version < "3"
- pygments >=2.0
- pyserial >=2.7
- pysocks
- python-dateutil
- requests >=2.0
- ropgadget >=5.3
- rpyc
- six >=1.12.0
- sortedcontainers
- unicorn !=2.1.3,!=2.1.4,>=2.0.1
-
unix-ar
python_version >= "3.6"
- zstandard
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