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python-utils

Python Utils is a module with some convenient utilities not included with the standard Python install
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python-utils has 19.6M monthly downloads and 97 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2011.

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

It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 29 tracked packages, including progressbar2, numpy-stl and pynomaly.

Downloads
Day
592.2K
Week
4.3M
Month
19.6M
Stars
97
Forks
41
Issues
0
Version
4.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
44
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
19,616,246
• 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
19,616,246
Stars
97
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
616,953
Month daily avg
653,875
Momentum
-5.6%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
4 days ago
Total releases
58
Releases/year
3.9
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
11
Monthly downloads
19,616,246
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
43
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.8%
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 441.4K
macOS 6.8K
Windows 3.0K

Python Versions

3.9
30.5% 130.0K
3.7
30.3% 129.1K
3.10
16.1% 68.5K
3.11
14.1% 60.1K
3.12
9.0% 38.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
348.9K
2. IE IE
34.6K
3. SG SG
17.6K
4. DE DE
14.8K
5. BR BR
9.5K
6. IN IN
5.3K
7. AU AU
4.7K
8. GB GB
3.6K
9. NL NL
2.4K
10. CA CA
2.3K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
October 16, 2011
Last Release
5 days ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
4.0.0
Total Releases
58
Contributors
11
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Rick van Hattem
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
utils utilities helpers typing typed async lazy-imports
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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