PyRank
benjaminp

six

Python 2 and 3 compatibility library
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

six has 1.1B monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.17.0, first published in 2010.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2024.

It is used by 7,281 tracked packages, including python-dateutil, kubernetes and markdownify.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (benjaminp/six) with 3 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
35.0M
Week
252.8M
Month
1.1B
Stars
1.0K
Forks
273
Issues
89
Version
1.17.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
66
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
134 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,127,927,625
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
1,127,927,625
Stars
1,021
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
36,114,873
Month daily avg
37,597,588
Momentum
-3.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,>=2.7
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
579 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
1.8
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
59
Monthly downloads
1,127,927,625
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
87.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
445d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 24.3M
Windows 1.0M
macOS 252.7K

Python Versions

3.12
31.6% 6.7M
3.11
30.6% 6.5M
3.13
14.6% 3.1M
3.10
13.0% 2.7M
3.9
10.1% 2.1M

Top Countries

1. US US
17.6M
2. SG SG
962.7K
3. DE DE
881.7K
4. IN IN
854.1K
5. IE IE
746.0K
6. HK HK
581.9K
7. NL NL
524.6K
8. JP JP
386.7K
9. GB GB
355.3K
10. BR BR
343.5K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 29, 2010
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
1.17.0
Total Releases
29
Contributors
59
Open PRs
20
Archived
No
Author
Benjamin Peterson
Python Versions
2 3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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