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pvapy

pvaPy provides Python bindings for EPICS pvAccess
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
22
Week
703
Month
7.8K
Stars
44
Forks
23
Issues
9
Version
5.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
36
Adoption
38
Community
50
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
268 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,787
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
7,787
Stars
44
Stars per 1k downloads
5.65
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
100
Month daily avg
260
Momentum
-61.3%
((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
EPICS Open 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
139 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
4.3
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
12
Monthly downloads
7,787
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
44
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
52.2%
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 5

Python Versions

3.13
80.0% 4
3.9
20.0% 1

Top Countries

1. US US
27
2. CA CA
1

Dependencies

1
16 optional dependencies

Used By

2

Package Information

License
EPICS Open License
First Release
March 16, 2019
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
5.6.0
Total Releases
31
Contributors
12
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Topics
python epics
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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