Babel (Python)
Internationalization utilities for Python with date/time formatting.
Utilities PyPI BSD-3-Clause
Used in agent projects
25
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#89 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
25.5M
PyPI, last 7 days, babel
GitHub stars
1,471
last push Sep 22, 2026
How Babel (Python) is used
Babel (Python) is a dependency in 25 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #89 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (92.0%), Jinja2 (88.0%), PyYAML (80.0%).
Often used with Babel (Python)
| Requests | 92.0% of Babel (Python) projects · 17.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Jinja2 | 88.0% of Babel (Python) projects · 63.8× more than average |
| PyYAML | 80.0% of Babel (Python) projects · 26.4× more than average |
| MarkupSafe | 72.0% of Babel (Python) projects · 100.5× more than average |
| Pygments | 72.0% of Babel (Python) projects · 94.2× more than average |
| NumPy | 68.0% of Babel (Python) projects · 17.7× more than average |
| pytz | 68.0% of Babel (Python) projects · 68.0× more than average |
| urllib3 | 68.0% of Babel (Python) projects · 44.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Babel (Python) as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install babel |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (22), Next.js (2), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | pipedude/evi-run, mikegianfelice/Hunter, everlastingsong/whirlpool-essentials, loblawbob873-svg/posterchanai, breatheco-de/apiv2 |
Alternatives to Babel (Python)
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clsx npm Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings. |
2,251 (17.7%) | 126M | 9,847 | MIT |
| date-fns npm Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions. |
1,079 (8.5%) | 97.6M | 36.6K | MIT |
| uuid npm Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications. |
454 (3.6%) | 296M | 15.3K | MIT |
| PyYAML pypi YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files. |
385 (3.0%) | 239M | 2,954 | MIT |
| Lodash npm Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation. |
269 (2.1%) | 162M | 61.4K | MIT |
| bn.js npm Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript. |
217 (1.7%) | 62.1M | 1,230 | MIT |
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
165 (1.3%) | 233M | 2,638 | Dual License |
| yaml npm JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance. |
164 (1.3%) | 179M | 1,693 | ISC |