While VBA still holds its place, Python’s rise in the Excel automation landscape is undeniable. With its neat integration in Microsoft’s spreadsheet software, it is becoming the new VBA for ...

If approved, Excel users would be able to use Python scripts to interact with Excel documents, their data, and some of Excel's core functions, similar to how Excel currently supports VBA scripts.

Python and Excel can only really talk to each other through limited functions—xl () and =PY ()—that can only return code results, not macros, VBA code, or other data, Microsoft claims.