Hello

I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction
I am trying to write a VB application that runs a simple python program of about 10 lines , then is supposed to return to VB and wait for the excel file that xyz.py created to read a cell from it.
Problem is I cannot get the file to execute

I have tried

Shell("C:\Users\Clive\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\python.exe C:\Users\Clive\Documents\xyz.py")

also

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Users\Clive\Documents\xyz.py")

none of these work
before we carry on double clicking xyz.py give me a correct result as well as running from the command line
am I missing a reference or something?

thanks in advance

Clive