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pyudev

pyudev

Python bindings to libudev (with support for PyQt4, PySide, pygobject and wx)
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyudev has 1.4M monthly downloads and 176 GitHub stars. Version 0.24.4 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2010.

It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Oct 2025.

It is used by 105 tracked packages, including rtslib-fb, chutes and labgrid.

Downloads
Day
45.9K
Week
310.4K
Month
1.4M
Stars
176
Forks
50
Issues
46
Version
0.24.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
48
Adoption
70
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
67 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,379,067
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
1,379,067
Stars
176
Stars per 1k downloads
0.13
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
44,337
Month daily avg
45,969
Momentum
-3.5%
((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
LGPL 2.1+
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
271 days ago
Total releases
34
Releases/year
2.1
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
20
Monthly downloads
1,379,067
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
76
 
Issue Burden
261.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
56.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
204d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 33.5K
macOS 724
Windows 205

Python Versions

3.7
65.4% 19.8K
3.12
14.7% 4.5K
3.9
9.2% 2.8K
3.13
5.4% 1.6K
3.11
5.2% 1.6K

Top Countries

1. FR FR
19.0K
2. US US
6.5K
3. ES ES
1.4K
4. CH CH
1.1K
5. CA CA
738
6. DE DE
724
7. NZ NZ
669
8. GB GB
628
9. NC NC
571
10. MQ MQ
568

Package Information

License
LGPL 2.1+
First Release
May 3, 2010
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
0.24.4
Total Releases
34
Contributors
20
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Sebastian Wiesner
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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