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pyphen

Hy-phen-ation made easy
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyphen has 32M monthly downloads and 229 GitHub stars. Version 0.17.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jan 2025.

It is used by 56 tracked packages, including weasyprint, textstat and gpt-researcher.

GitHub topics include hyphenation.

Downloads
Day
1.0M
Week
7.2M
Month
32.0M
Stars
229
Forks
24
Issues
5
Version
0.17.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
47
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
18 days ago
Monthly downloads
31,972,089
• 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
31,972,089
Stars
229
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
1,033,029
Month daily avg
1,065,736
Momentum
-3.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
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
533 days ago
Total releases
11
Releases/year
0.8
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
42
Monthly downloads
31,972,089
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
39
 
Issue Burden
21.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
175.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
515d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 552.5K
Windows 8.6K
macOS 5.5K

Python Versions

3.12
51.2% 281.6K
3.11
23.3% 128.2K
3.13
10.3% 56.7K
3.10
8.5% 46.8K
3.14
6.8% 37.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
410.1K
2. DE DE
60.8K
3. IN IN
8.5K
4. IE IE
7.9K
5. NL NL
6.6K
6. SG SG
6.4K
7. IT IT
6.4K
8. FR FR
5.5K
9. CN CN
5.5K
10. GB GB
4.9K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
First Release
January 7, 2013
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.17.2
Total Releases
11
Contributors
42
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
hyphenation
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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