distro
Python library providing OS platform and Linux distribution information detection.
Utilities PyPI Apache License, Version 2.0
Used in agent projects
46
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#46 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
70.2M
PyPI, last 7 days, distro
GitHub stars
281
last push Sep 7, 2026
How distro is used
distro is a dependency in 46 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #46 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (97.8%), Pydantic (95.7%), urllib3 (95.7%).
Often used with distro
| Requests | 97.8% of distro projects · 18.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pydantic | 95.7% of distro projects · 18.7× more than average |
| urllib3 | 95.7% of distro projects · 62.9× more than average |
| AnyIO | 91.3% of distro projects · 62.3× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 91.3% of distro projects · 73.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list distro as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install distro |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (40), Next.js (5), Other (1) |
| Example projects | pipedude/evi-run, DelineaXPM/delinea-mcp, leonardsellem/readwise-vector-db, ManojINaik/manimAnimationAgent, nihilistau/CosySim |
Alternatives to distro
| 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. |
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| 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 |