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When I look online, I've read that fuzzy wuzzy is included in the pip library, and that to install fuzzy wuzzy you simply write:

pip install fuzzywuzzy

but whenever I try to do this in Python 3.6 IDLE, I get the error message:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

and it highlights the word install. 

Why can't I install Fuzzy Wuzzy?

It's not from IDLE,you run it from command line(cmd).

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
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C:\Windows\System32>cd\

C:\>pip install fuzzywuzzy
Collecting fuzzywuzzy
 Using cached fuzzywuzzy-0.15.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: fuzzywuzzy
Successfully installed fuzzywuzzy-0.15.0

C:\>python
Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 23 2016, 07:18:10) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import fuzzywuzzy
>>> fuzzywuzzy.__version__
'0.15.0'

>>> >pip install fuzzywuzzy
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    >pip install fuzzywuzzy
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> C:\>pip install fuzzywuzzy
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    C:\>pip install fuzzywuzzy
                             ^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
>>> pip install fuzzywuzzy
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    pip install fuzzywuzzy
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

I'm still receiving a syntax error...?

You're still running it in a Python shell. You need to run it from the operating system's command prompt.

Open the Command prompt and run: pip install fuzzywuzzy

Not the Python interpreter or IDLE.

Press win+r, type cmd, press Enter and you get it.

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Great, thanks, got it. Now does anyone have any advice on how to write a fuzzy lookup string parser for excel and .csv files :)

Read the docs: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fuzzywuzzy/0.15.0
example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38969...-in-python