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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:55 PM,  <roy.snuffles@gmail.com> wrote:
> File "simpleRun.py", line 29
>     help= ~/home/lai/Downloads/influence_matrix_files/hprd_inf_.mat)
>            ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

You need quotes around the filename. It's a string literal.

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