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unicodecsv

Python2's stdlib csv module is nice, but it doesn't support unicode. This module is a drop-in replacement which *does*. If you prefer python 3's semantics but need support in py2, you probably want https://github.com/ryanhiebert/backports.csv
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

unicodecsv has 6.8M monthly downloads and 596 GitHub stars. Version 0.12.0, first published in 2011.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2016.

It is used by 107 tracked packages, including tableschema, dataflows-tabulator and panphon.

Downloads
Day
196.4K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.8M
Stars
596
Forks
85
Issues
19
Version
0.12.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
58
Adoption
60
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
503 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,772,175
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
6,772,175
Stars
596
Stars per 1k downloads
0.09
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
201,197
Month daily avg
225,739
Momentum
-10.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD 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
3819 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
0.7
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
13
Monthly downloads
6,772,175
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
51
 
Issue Burden
31.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
3315d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 151.8K
Windows 408
macOS 123

Python Versions

3.10
47.8% 65.2K
3.8
17.9% 24.4K
3.12
13.5% 18.4K
3.9
11.4% 15.5K
3.11
9.3% 12.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
78.7K
2. NL NL
51.1K
3. JP JP
8.6K
4. SG SG
3.1K
5. IE IE
2.8K
6. GB GB
2.1K
7. AU AU
903
8. IN IN
782
9. DE DE
728
10. FR FR
645

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
November 27, 2011
Last Release
10 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.12.0
Total Releases
10
Contributors
13
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Jeremy Dunck
Python Versions
2.6 2.7 3.3 3.4 3.5
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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