title: Why does pandas.to_excel constantly get stuck?
body: <p>I’m working with large datasets in pandas that I need to relay to excel, and even though I’m splitting them into subsets of 30-50k rows, I am constantly getting the issue where sporadically (happens maybe 1 in every 3 times and I can’t work out why) Jupyter just gets stuck in the ‘*’ mode and when I interrupt the kernel it actually takes up to an hour for the ‘KeyboardInterrupt’ message to turn up/the code to stop executing.</p>
  <p>I don’t have any code to show as I’m simply just doing pandas.to_excel(‘directory’) and I can’t show my data for confidentiality reasons, but there are only about 7 columns and only one of those columns contains URLs. So I don’t know why the function keeps getting stuck.</p>
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>