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pydot

pydot

Python interface to Graphviz's Dot language
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pydot has 21.6M monthly downloads and 997 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2008.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.

It is built on top of pyparsing. It is used by 498 tracked packages, including tach, dvc and androguard.

GitHub topics include graphviz and dot-language.

Downloads
Day
1.0M
Week
6.2M
Month
21.6M
Stars
997
Forks
174
Issues
38
Version
4.0.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
64
Adoption
100
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,552,007
• 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
21,552,007
Stars
997
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
• 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
879,277
Month daily avg
718,400
Momentum
+22.4%
((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
MIT
• 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
384 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
1.0
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
36
Monthly downloads
21,552,007
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
64
 
Issue Burden
38.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
379d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 269.7K
macOS 35.7K
Windows 12.4K

Python Versions

3.12
37.5% 108.3K
3.13
26.0% 75.0K
3.10
14.6% 42.2K
3.11
12.1% 34.9K
3.7
9.8% 28.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
562.0K
2. DK DK
82.3K
3. SE SE
15.4K
4. NL NL
12.5K
5. SG SG
9.5K
6. GB GB
8.7K
7. IE IE
6.4K
8. DE DE
5.0K
9. IN IN
3.7K
10. KR KR
3.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
February 14, 2008
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
4.0.1
Total Releases
19
Contributors
36
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
graphviz dot graphs visualization
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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