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.

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: urllib3, typing_extensions, charset-normalizer, charset_normalizer, setuptools.

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 deps

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/ 100

Health

use with caution

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

Health breakdown

0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

0

none known

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