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Package Health Score

97 / 100

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No known security issues
popularity
Key ecosystem project
maintenance
Healthy
community
Active

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Popularity

Key ecosystem project

GitHub Stars: 3.88K
Forks: 541
Contributors: 110

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package tox, we found that it has been starred 3,879 times.

Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Jan 2, 2026
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License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 149
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 4 days ago
Last Commit: 4 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of tox based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that tox demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 110
Funding: Yes

A good and healthy external contribution signal for tox project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=3.10

Age: 16 years
Latest Release: 4 days ago
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 250
Maintainers: 0
Wheels: OS Independent

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To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that tox is being used within popular public projects.

ansible / pytest-mp / setup.py View on Github

def run_tests(self):
        import tox
        errno = tox.cmdline(self.tox_args)
        sys.exit(errno)

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What is tox?

tox is a generic virtualenv management and test command line tool. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for tox, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is tox popular?

The python package tox receives a total of 6,466,809 weekly downloads. As such, tox popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is tox well maintained?

We found that tox demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 110 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is tox safe to use?

The python package tox was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 6 January-2026, at 14:30 (UTC).

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