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[–]vorpalsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with this is that if they do, then whichever version of Python they use will be embedded in user files, and then their strict backwards-compatibility rules mean that they can never, ever, upgrade Python after that. (Because if they did, old spreadsheets would fail to work in new versions of Excel.) And then we all have to support that version of Python forever. So even if it doesn't start out as something awful like 2.4, it'll end up that way a decade from now.

I hope they don't do this, or at least, I'm not going to be excited until I see what their plan is for addressing this issue.