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pytest-dev

pytest-env

pytest plugin to set environment variables in pytest.ini or pyproject.toml file
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pytest-env has 24.9M monthly downloads and 229 GitHub stars. Version 1.6.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2015.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of pytest, python-dotenv and tomli. It is used by 41 tracked packages, including arklex, covalent-api-sdk and pytest-inmanta-extensions.

GitHub topics include plugin and pytest.

Downloads
Day
629.8K
Week
4.8M
Month
24.9M
Stars
229
Forks
11
Issues
0
Version
1.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
43
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
24,913,341
• 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
24,913,341
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
690,587
Month daily avg
830,445
Momentum
-16.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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 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
115 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
2.2
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
20
Monthly downloads
24,913,341
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
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
4.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
181.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
112d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 244.2K
macOS 1.6K
Windows 1.5K

Python Versions

3.12
40.1% 93.4K
3.13
23.4% 54.5K
3.11
23.3% 54.2K
3.14
6.9% 16.1K
3.10
6.3% 14.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
195.7K
2. IE IE
10.6K
3. GB GB
7.8K
4. DE DE
6.7K
5. JP JP
5.9K
6. SG SG
4.5K
7. NL NL
3.9K
8. BE BE
1.4K
9. HK HK
1.4K
10. ID ID
1.0K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
February 5, 2015
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
1.6.0
Total Releases
25
Contributors
20
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
env pytest
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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