Is wcwidth safe to use?

wcwidth has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.8.2). DepScope rates its health at 84/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of wcwidth?

The latest version of wcwidth is 0.8.2, released 2026-06-29.

Does wcwidth have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of wcwidth.

Is wcwidth deprecated?

No, wcwidth is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.8.2 (2026-06-29).

What are alternatives to wcwidth?

Popular alternatives to wcwidth in PyPI include: typing-extensions, setuptools, annotated-types, pandas, httpx.

wcwidth

pypiv0.8.2

Measures the displayed width of unicode strings in a terminal

License MITpermissive41 versions0 deps67,093,915 weekly dl

jquast/wcwidth

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 84/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

3

Contributors (12m)

6

Primary author dominance

81%

GitHub stars

453

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.51high

Download trend

growing(+10.1%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

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wcwidth

pypiv0.8.2

Measures the displayed width of unicode strings in a terminal

License MITpermissive41 versions0 deps67,093,915 weekly dl

jquast/wcwidth

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 84/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

3

Contributors (12m)

6

Primary author dominance

81%

GitHub stars

453

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.51high

Download trend

growing(+10.1%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/wcwidth