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spyder-ide

qtpy

Provides an uniform layer to support PyQt5, PySide2, PyQt6, PySide6 with a single codebase
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

qtpy has 8.7M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 2.4.3 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2015.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2025.

It is built on top of packaging. It is used by 772 tracked packages, including qtconsole, pywebview and superqt.

GitHub topics include qtpy, spyder and qt-gui.

Downloads
Day
181.7K
Week
1.2M
Month
8.7M
Stars
1.1K
Forks
163
Issues
30
Version
2.4.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
64
Adoption
60
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
85 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,747,108
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
8,747,108
Stars
1,097
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
171,679
Month daily avg
291,570
Momentum
-41.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
• 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
510 days ago
Total releases
41
Releases/year
3.6
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
67
Monthly downloads
8,747,108
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
71
 
Issue Burden
27.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
41.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
424d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 94.7K
Windows 5.6K
macOS 1.5K

Python Versions

3.12
38.5% 35.9K
3.10
27.9% 26.0K
3.13
19.6% 18.3K
3.11
11.2% 10.4K
3.7
2.8% 2.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
59.8K
2. SG SG
22.3K
3. JP JP
4.0K
4. HK HK
3.1K
5. IE IE
1.6K
6. IN IN
1.3K
7. GB GB
1.1K
8. NL NL
1.1K
9. CN CN
1.0K
10. DE DE
951
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
March 1, 2015
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
2.4.3
Total Releases
41
Contributors
67
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
Colin Duquesnoy and the Spyder Development Team
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
qt PyQt5 PyQt6 PySide2 PySide6
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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