platformdirs

A small Python package for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a `user data dir`.
Licenses: MIT

Package Health Score

94/100
  • securityNo known security issues
  • popularityKey ecosystem project
  • maintenanceHealthy
  • communityActive

Maintenance

HEALTHY

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New PRS
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Last Release
7 days ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Maintainers
80

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

We found that platformdirs demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Popularity

KEY ECOSYSTEM PROJECT
GitHub Stars
940
Forks
82
Contributors
80

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package platformdirs, we found that it has been starred 940 times.

Community

ACTIVE
Readme
Yes
Contributing.md
Yes
Code of Conduct
No
Contributors
80
Funding
Yes
LICENSE
MIT

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License

MIT[0,);

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Security

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Package versions

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