PyRank
mrabarnett

regex

Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

regex has 402.8M monthly downloads and 590 GitHub stars. Version 2026.6.28 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2010.

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

It is used by 2,171 tracked packages, including tiktoken, transformers and cfn-lint.

Downloads
Day
12.8M
Week
95.4M
Month
402.8M
Stars
590
Forks
71
Issues
73
Version
2026.6.28

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
57
Adoption
80
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
402,757,112
• 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
402,757,112
Stars
590
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
13,632,394
Month daily avg
13,425,237
Momentum
+1.5%
((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
Apache-2.0 AND CNRI-Python
• 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
8 days ago
Total releases
363
Releases/year
22.1
• 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
6
Monthly downloads
402,757,112
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
40
 
Issue Burden
123.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 9.3M
Windows 206.8K
macOS 115.7K

Python Versions

3.12
44.7% 4.1M
3.13
24.3% 2.2M
3.11
16.0% 1.5M
3.10
11.3% 1.0M
3.14
3.8% 351.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
6.8M
2. SG SG
942.1K
3. IN IN
506.9K
4. DE DE
173.4K
5. GB GB
153.1K
6. IE IE
138.2K
7. NL NL
130.7K
8. JP JP
130.4K
9. CA CA
89.9K
10. HK HK
56.6K

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0 AND CNRI-Python
First Release
February 17, 2010
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2026.6.28
Total Releases
363
Contributors
6
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
Wheels
cp25 cp26 cp27 cp31 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp32 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 py25 py31 py34
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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