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On 15/10/2014 23:50, ryguy7272 wrote:
> The error that I get is this.
> 'invalid syntax'
>
> The second single quote in this line is highlighted pink.
> print 'Downloading data from Yahoo for %s sector' % sector

This is a script written for Python 2.*, but you say you are using 
Python 3.4. In Python 3, "print" is a function, not a statement, so you 
need to translate this to

   print('Downloading data from Yahoo for %s sector' % sector)