So it seemed easy enough. Use a series of nested loops to go though a ton of URLs sorted by year/month/day and download the XML files. As this is my first script, I started with the loop; something familiar in any language. I ran it just printing the constructed URLs and it worked perfect. I then wrote the code to download the content and save it separately, and that worked perfect as well with a sample URL on multiple test cases. But when I combined these two bits of code, it broke, the program just got stuck and did nothing at all. I therefore ran the debugger and as I stepped through it, it became stuck on this one line:So it seemed easy enough. Use a series of neste