Is Levenshtein safe to use?

Levenshtein has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.27.3). DepScope rates its health at 49/100 (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, certifi, urllib3.

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

rapidfuzz/Levenshtein

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (49/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (49/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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