Long python process apparently timing out

[peoplebuilder]

I have a long-running python process that works independently and works properly in Excel when runtime is under 90 seconds or so. If the runtime is sufficiently long, Excel generates an alert - "Microsoft Excel is waiting for a another application to complete an OLE action".

This is pretty clearly a timeout, but I can't figure out how to set a longer timeout - maybe 600 seconds. Is it possible to set a longer timeout for ExcelPython

[AntonioSuriano]

Hi,

this behaviour is typical of VBA calling external programs that are slow.

It happens with Oracle, Matlab, Datastream...
But it does not mean the process stopped.

[ericremoreynolds]

Thanks Antonio, actually I think I forgot to reply to this issue.

What Antonio says is entirely correct, unfortunately though I do not know of a way of increasing the timeout.