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python-editor

Programmatically open an editor, capture the result.
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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-editor has 2.6M monthly downloads and 89 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.4, first published in 2015.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2019.

It is used by 40 tracked packages, including docassemble-base, docassemble-webapp and owega.

Downloads
Day
70.6K
Week
549.5K
Month
2.6M
Stars
89
Forks
51
Issues
9
Version
1.0.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
44
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1000 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,611,522
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
2,611,522
Stars
89
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
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
78,501
Month daily avg
87,051
Momentum
-9.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Apache
• 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
2712 days ago
Total releases
9
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
10
Monthly downloads
2,611,522
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
19.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1712d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 37.1K
Windows 220
macOS 26

Python Versions

3.8
45.8% 13.6K
3.7
16.5% 4.9K
3.9
13.1% 3.9K
3.11
12.6% 3.7K
3.10
12.0% 3.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
24.3K
2. DE DE
4.6K
3. IN IN
3.9K
4. IE IE
1.8K
5. SG SG
820
6. FR FR
416
7. ID ID
411
8. CN CN
348
9. NL NL
285
10. GB GB
212

Package Information

License
Apache
First Release
January 10, 2015
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
1.0.4
Total Releases
9
Contributors
10
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Peter Ruibal
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
editor library vim emacs
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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