shippinglabel

Utilities for handling packages.

shippinglabel v2.3.0 817.0K downloads/30d#4,988 on PyPI★ 1

Permissive license Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Dominic Davis-Foster Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal… (full text in the JSON record) Active released 2025-05-08

What it is and what it does

shippinglabel is a utility library for working with Python package metadata and distribution information. It handles parsing and manipulation of package data from PyPI and Conda ecosystems, with built-in support for package classifiers. The package includes a vendored copy of trove-classifiers but will defer to a newer pip-installed version if available, making it useful for tools that need to inspect or process package metadata programmatically.

The library depends on dist-meta, dom-toml, domdf-python-tools, packaging, and typing-extensions to handle metadata parsing and configuration. It supports Python 3.7 through 3.13 and runs on both CPython and PyPy, making it suitable for integration into build systems, package managers, or development tooling that needs reliable metadata handling.

Use it for:

Inspect Python package metadata from PyPI or local distributions in build automation
Extract and validate package requirements and dependencies programmatically
Work with trove classifiers for package categorization in packaging tools
Read and process TOML-based package configuration files
Integrate package metadata handling into CI/CD pipelines or utilities

Worth the install?

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Provides utilities for reading and working with Python package metadata, requirements, and distribution information.

Yes. shippinglabel is actively maintained with no known vulnerabilities and offers low-friction installation. It's suitable for any project needing reliable Python package metadata utilities. The MIT license is permissive for both open and closed use.

Install

shippinglabel on PyPI

pip

pip install shippinglabel

uv

uv add shippinglabel

poetry

poetry add shippinglabel

Installing shippinglabel

Before you install

Low friction install with five runtime dependencies. Actively maintained with last commit on 2026-07-06 and production-stable status.

License in practice

MIT license permits unrestricted use, modification, and distribution in both open and closed projects with only attribution required.

Quickstart

pip install shippinglabel

import shippinglabel
# Use shippinglabel utilities for package metadata handling

Verify before relying

Specific API surface and which package metadata operations are supported beyond generic utilities
Whether the vendored trove-classifiers copy is kept current or requires manual updates

Package facts

License	Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Dominic Davis-Foster Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal… (full text in the JSON record) (permissive)
Python support	supports the current Python release (>=3.7)
Install friction	low — pure-Python wheel
Runtime dependencies	5 — dist-meta, dom-toml, domdf-python-tools, packaging, typing-extensions
Maintenance	actively maintained — 463 days since the last release
Last repo commit	2026-07-06
First released	2020-11-09
Downloads	816,954/month — #4,988 on PyPI (30-day window, as of 2026-08-14)
Known vulnerabilities	none known (OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14)

Evidence: shippinglabel-2.3.0-py3-none-any.whl

Keywords: conda, packaging, pypi, requirements

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