PyRank
cdgriffith

python-box

Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-box has 7.7M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 7.4.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2017.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.

It is used by 273 tracked packages, including pycarlo, comet-ml and kr8s.

GitHub topics include dictionaries, bunch and python-types.

Downloads
Day
237.0K
Week
1.7M
Month
7.7M
Stars
2.8K
Forks
124
Issues
35
Version
7.4.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
69
Adoption
70
Community
35
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
135 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,692,477
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
7,692,477
Stars
2,825
Stars per 1k downloads
0.37
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
249,744
Month daily avg
256,416
Momentum
-2.6%
((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
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
135 days ago
Total releases
66
Releases/year
7.1
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
18
Monthly downloads
7,692,477
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
42
 
Issue Burden
12.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 107.2K
Windows 1.3K
macOS 870

Python Versions

3.12
41.6% 40.3K
3.11
31.7% 30.7K
3.10
13.8% 13.3K
3.13
8.5% 8.2K
3.14
4.5% 4.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
79.7K
2. DE DE
6.7K
3. AU AU
4.3K
4. IN IN
4.3K
5. CA CA
3.1K
6. NL NL
2.6K
7. IE IE
2.2K
8. JP JP
972
9. GB GB
927
10. SG SG
840
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
March 11, 2017
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
7.4.1
Total Releases
66
Contributors
18
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Chris Griffith
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp37 cp38 cp39 py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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