Syntax errors: Struggling to setup enviroment and load packages

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I need to downgrade to 3.8 to fix this, but now need to create a virtual eviroment that has both 3.8 in it, and flickr_Scraper. How do I do this on cmder? Cheers.

You don't need to downgrade just install Python 3.8 and do not add it to PATH.
Python 3.9/3.8 and pip installation under Windows
Then can use py to access Python 3.8.
Here is the start then the other commands is the same

# Make environment with Python 3.8 
G:\div_code\py -3.8 -m venv flick38_env

G:\div_code
λ cd flick38_env\

G:\div_code\flick38_env
λ G:\div_code\flick38_env\Scripts\activate

(flick38_env) G:\div_code\flick38_env
λ cd flickr_scraper\
.....

Can do a test to see it works.

(flick38_env) G:\div_code\flick38_env\flickr_scraper (master)
λ python flickr_scraper.py --search "bees" --n 10 --download
0/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/5537/14142817779_8786627929_o.jpg
1/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/829/41747732682_f4f10ec204_o.jpg
2/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/1662/23809746334_c22950a054_o.jpg
3/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/4094/4822128168_415b5ce1e4_o.jpg
4/10 https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5511/12638717365_7643b6e19a_b.jpg
5/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/961/27921370568_0795b91dfb_o.jpg
6/10 https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1646/26540040015_54f071db32_b.jpg
7/10 https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7377/26868463353_6da2da165d_b.jpg
8/10 https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7595/17187249975_b1ccddea5f_b.jpg
9/10 https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1578/26186589965_678bd3c5a4_b.jpg

Some points if search has more than one work use double quote and not single.

python flickr_scraper.py --search "honeybees on flowers" --n 10 --download

I have to use Ctrl+c to stop it get out.