binaryornot

Ultra-lightweight pure Python package to check if a file is binary or text.
Licenses: MIT | BSD-2-Clause

Package Health Score

91/100
  • securityNo known security issues
  • popularityInfluential project
  • maintenanceHealthy
  • communityActive

Maintenance

HEALTHY

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Open Issues
6
Open PR
10
New PRS
0
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Maintainers
20

Further analysis of the maintenance status of binaryornot based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that binaryornot demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

Popularity

INFLUENTIAL PROJECT
GitHub Stars
148
Forks
46
Contributors
20

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package binaryornot, we found that it has been starred 148 times.

Community

ACTIVE
Readme
Yes
Contributing.md
Yes
Code of Conduct
Yes
Contributors
20
Funding
No
LICENSE
MIT

With more than 10 contributors for the binaryornot repository, this is possibly a sign for a growing and inviting community.

License

MIT[0.5.0,);
BSD-2-Clause[0.1.0,0.5.0);

Direct Vulnerabilities

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Security

NO KNOWN SECURITY ISSUES
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No vulnerabilities found in the latest version

Package versions

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0.6.08 Mar, 2026
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0.5.07 Mar, 2026
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0.4.43 Aug, 2017
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0.4.312 Apr, 2017
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0.4.212 Apr, 2017
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0.4.022 Aug, 2015
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0.3.05 May, 2014
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0.2.022 Sep, 2013
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