Is Levenshtein safe to use?

Levenshtein has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.27.3). DepScope rates its health at 71/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of Levenshtein?

The latest version of Levenshtein is 0.27.3, released 2025-11-01.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of Levenshtein.

No, Levenshtein is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.27.3 (2025-11-01).

Popular alternatives to Levenshtein in PyPI include: packaging, certifi, urllib3, typing_extensions, charset-normalizer.

Levenshtein is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later.

pypiv0.27.3

Python extension for computing string edit distances and similarities.

License GPL-2.0-or-later34 versions1 maintainers1 deps4,862,171 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 71/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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