PyRank
ionelmc

tblib

Serialization library for Exceptions and Tracebacks.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

tblib has 30.5M monthly downloads and 183 GitHub stars. Version 3.2.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is used by 139 tracked packages, including sqlfluff, sagemaker-core and distributed.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (ionelmc/python-tblib) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
929.6K
Week
6.9M
Month
30.5M
Stars
183
Forks
43
Issues
17
Version
3.2.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
48
Adoption
70
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
236 days ago
Monthly downloads
30,522,909
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
30,522,909
Stars
183
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
984,626
Month daily avg
1,017,430
Momentum
-3.2%
((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
BSD-2-Clause
• 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
236 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
1.5
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
17
Monthly downloads
30,522,909
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
61
 
Issue Burden
92.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
39.5%
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 522.4K
Windows 5.0K
macOS 4.8K

Python Versions

3.12
33.5% 156.1K
3.11
31.2% 145.2K
3.10
13.9% 64.6K
3.13
13.9% 64.5K
3.9
7.5% 35.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
355.7K
2. SG SG
48.9K
3. IE IE
20.9K
4. DE DE
16.8K
5. JP JP
13.9K
6. NL NL
13.9K
7. GB GB
12.9K
8. BR BR
10.0K
9. BE BE
8.9K
10. IN IN
5.5K

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
December 31, 2013
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
3.2.2
Total Releases
19
Contributors
17
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
traceback debugging exceptions
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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