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miepython

Mie scattering of light by perfect spheres
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
257
Week
1.3K
Month
9.3K
Stars
203
Forks
60
Issues
1
Version
3.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
50
Adoption
39
Community
30
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
59 days ago
Monthly downloads
9,265
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
9,265
Stars
203
Stars per 1k downloads
21.91
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
184
Month daily avg
309
Momentum
-40.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
60 days ago
Total releases
33
Releases/year
3.8
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
7
Monthly downloads
9,265
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
40
 
Issue Burden
4.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.7%
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 173
Windows 10
macOS 10

Python Versions

3.12
60.6% 117
3.11
18.7% 36
3.13
16.1% 31
3.10
4.1% 8
3.9
0.5% 1

Top Countries

1. US US
91
2. DE DE
84
3. CN CN
5
4. CA CA
4
5. CZ CZ
4
6. KR KR
2
7. NL NL
2
8. QA QA
2
9. RU RU
2
10. SG SG
2

Dependencies

4
24 optional dependencies

Used By

5

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 3, 2017
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
3.2.0
Total Releases
33
Contributors
7
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
mie scattering rainbow droplet backscatter sphere nanoparticle cloud phase function efficiency rayleigh backscattering
Topics
scattering python jupyter-notebook
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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