---
id: pontos
version: "26.5.0"
license: GPL-3.0-or-later
license_treatment: copyleft
maintenance: active
---

# pontos — Common utilities and tools maintained by Greenbone AG

License: copyleft · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 115.3K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Pontos is a utility library maintained by Greenbone that bundles common Python development tools and helpers. It provides CLI command support with shell completion for bash and zsh, version management utilities, and general-purpose data processing functions. The package depends on colorful, httpx, lxml, packaging, python-dateutil, rich, semver, shtab, and tomlkit to handle formatting, HTTP requests, XML parsing, version handling, and configuration management.

The package is actively maintained and supports modern Python versions from 3.10 through 3.14. It can be installed via pip, pipx, or poetry, though newer Linux distributions may require pipx due to PEP 668 restrictions. The library is distributed under GPLv3, making it suitable for open-source projects but requiring license compliance for proprietary use.

Use it for:

- Building CLI applications that need shell completion support in bash and zsh
- Managing semantic versioning and version comparisons in Python projects
- Parsing and processing XML or TOML configuration files
- Formatting console output with colors and rich text formatting
- Handling HTTP requests and date/time operations in utility scripts

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Pontos is a collection of Python utilities and tools for common development tasks, including CLI command support, version management, and data processing helpers maintained by Greenbone.

Yes, if you need a collection of development utilities and are comfortable with GPLv3 licensing. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and provides useful helpers for CLI and version management tasks. Not suitable for proprietary projects due to copyleft licensing.

## Install

pip install pontos
uv add pontos
poetry add pontos

## Installing pontos

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained with a recent release; last commit was 2026-08-12 and the project is not archived.

License in practice: Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later (copyleft). Any code that links or imports pontos must comply with GPLv3 terms, including providing source code and allowing redistribution under the same license.

Quickstart:

pip install pontos

import pontos
# Use pontos utilities in your code

Requires Python 3.10 or later. PEP 668 restrictions in newer distributions like Ubuntu 23.04 may require using pipx instead of pip for system-wide installation.

Verify before relying:

- What specific utilities, classes, and functions are included in the package beyond CLI tools
- Whether the package is suitable as a library dependency or primarily intended as a CLI tool
- Performance characteristics or scalability limits for the included utilities

## Package facts

- License: GPL-3.0-or-later (copyleft)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 115.3K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

python utilities library, greenbone development tools, cli command utilities, version management helpers, python toolkit, development utilities, command line tools, cli-tools, version-management, greenbone

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