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Umm... Libreoffice has shipped with Python scripting since almost forever.

Not many people care because the most popular use case of any office suite is to interoperate with Microsoft file formats.

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To be honest, I don't even fully understand what are the use-cases for integrating python with spreadsheets right now. I use both of them separately for different things but cannot see what it can be good at doing in an integrated environment.

Isn't it simply a more mature language replacement for VBA scripting?

I use spreadsheets for all kinds of bookkeeping, and very often there's some data you need to fetch once when a new entry is created, be it stock prices from a webpage or calendar entries from Outlook. LibreOffice's python scripts are great for those cases, because the tooling is just plain better than VB. Alas, VB is still necessary for formulae.

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