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python-discovery

Python interpreter discovery
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-discovery has 291.4M monthly downloads and 13 GitHub stars. Version 1.4.3 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2026.

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

It is built on top of filelock and platformdirs. It is used by 30 tracked packages, including virtualenv, tox and hatch.

Downloads
Day
8.4M
Week
62.1M
Month
291.4M
Stars
13
Forks
10
Issues
0
Version
1.4.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
26
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
291,378,504
• 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
291,378,504
Stars
13
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
8,867,744
Month daily avg
9,712,617
Momentum
-8.7%
((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 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
3 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
41.8
• 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
14
Monthly downloads
291,378,504
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
45
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
140.0%
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 5.6M
Windows 203.2K
macOS 80.8K

Python Versions

3.10
26.1% 1.5M
3.11
25.2% 1.4M
3.12
24.3% 1.4M
3.13
13.5% 773.3K
3.14
11.0% 629.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
5.1M
2. SG SG
148.9K
3. DE DE
114.3K
4. IE IE
66.9K
5. NL NL
48.9K
6. GB GB
48.1K
7. KR KR
45.4K
8. AU AU
40.1K
9. HK HK
29.5K
10. CN CN
25.7K

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
February 25, 2026
Last Release
4 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
1.4.3
Total Releases
15
Contributors
14
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
discovery interpreter python
Tracking Since
March 8, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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