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pywinpty

Pseudoterminals for Windows in Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pywinpty has 5.5M monthly downloads and 159 GitHub stars. Version 3.0.5 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.

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

It is used by 156 tracked packages, including jupyter-server, terminado and jupyter-server-terminals.

GitHub topics include winpty, pty and console.

Downloads
Day
170.0K
Week
1.2M
Month
5.5M
Stars
159
Forks
34
Issues
30
Version
3.0.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
46
Adoption
70
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
25 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,490,752
• 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
5,490,752
Stars
159
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
168,592
Month daily avg
183,025
Momentum
-7.9%
((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
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
25 days ago
Total releases
49
Releases/year
5.5
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
5,490,752
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
62
 
Issue Burden
188.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
58.8%
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 73.9K
Windows 46.8K
macOS 1.5K

Python Versions

3.13
36.2% 41.1K
3.14
20.2% 23.0K
3.12
20.2% 22.9K
3.11
19.9% 22.6K
3.10
3.5% 4.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
48.9K
2. GB GB
25.3K
3. SG SG
8.4K
4. IN IN
8.2K
5. CN CN
6.9K
6. JP JP
2.7K
7. DE DE
2.4K
8. KR KR
2.2K
9. NL NL
2.2K
10. HK HK
1.8K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
July 15, 2017
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.0.5
Total Releases
49
Contributors
20
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Edgar Margffoy
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
PTY Windows pseudo-terminal PyO3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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