Is levenshtein safe to use?

levenshtein has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.27.3). DepScope rates its health at 51/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of levenshtein?

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

Does levenshtein have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of levenshtein.

Is levenshtein deprecated?

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

What are alternatives to levenshtein?

Popular alternatives to levenshtein in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, idna, urllib3, typing-extensions.

What license does levenshtein use?

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

levenshtein

pypiv0.27.3

Python extension for computing string edit distances and similarities.

License GPL-2.0-or-later34 versions1 maintainers1 deps

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (51/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (51/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

4/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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