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pylint-plugin-utils

Utilities and helpers for writing Pylint plugins
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
3.3M
Weekly downloads
877.8K
GitHub stars
26

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
0.9.0
Requires Python
<4.0,>=3.9
Licence
GPL-2.0-or-later
Last Release
1 year ago
Author
Carl Crowder
First Release
October 25, 2013
Total Releases
17
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
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

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
30
Adoption
90
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
59 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,277,071
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
3,277,071
Stars
26
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
125,406
Month daily avg
109,236
Momentum
+14.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.9
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
GPL-2.0-or-later
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
480 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
1.3
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
14
Monthly downloads
3,277,071
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
57
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
127.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
420d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 37.6K
Windows 138
macOS 133

Python Versions

3.12
35.3% 11.7K
3.11
19.3% 6.4K
3.13
18.3% 6.1K
3.14
17.5% 5.8K
3.10
9.6% 3.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
26.7K
2. DE DE
3.9K
3. JP JP
1.9K
4. NL NL
1.1K
5. BE BE
794
6. GB GB
529
7. IN IN
434
8. IE IE
418
9. FR FR
397
10. ES ES
333

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Repository details

Forks
11
Issues
3
Last Commit
2 months ago
Contributors
14
Open PRs
3
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
pylint plugin helpers
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