After reading a lot of praise for Python on these boards, a while back I looked into actually using it with OpenOffice - and while I got some "hello world" type code working, for any of my actual projects I was thoroughly stymied by the lack of an IDE, the lack of any built-in messagebox-type feature for debugging, and the complexity of embedding code within a document (and conversely of extracting it for editing). I agree with the Python advocates that the syntax for Basic is technically inferior... I'm just really attached to that IDE.
I looked on Bugzilla and found a couple of feature requests:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=60849
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=75132
Neither of them has any significant number of votes, and neither has any activity since 2006/2007.
I also found a somewhat more recent wiki page (creation and last activity August 2013): PyUNO Project: UNO IDLE
Is this just so difficult and/or unrewarding that no dev is interested in working on it?
Will OpenOffice IDE ever support Python?
Will OpenOffice IDE ever support Python?
OpenOffice 4.1.1 on Windows 10, HSQLDB 1.8 split database
Re: Will OpenOffice IDE ever support Python?
There is some Python support in NetBeans 8.0.2
http://wiki.netbeans.org/Python
http://wiki.netbeans.org/Python
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 on Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS