[Python] How can I solve the overwrite error when downloading exercism.io exercises?

I signed up on exercism.io and wanted to download the first exercise into my GitHub repository folder. After installing the Exercism CLI and entering my token, I used the following command to download the exercise into the repository folder:

exercism download --track=python --exercise=hello-world


However, I encountered the following error:

Error: directory 'C:\Users\MJ\Exercism\python\hello-world' already exists, use --force to overwrite


When I added --force to the command, I got another error:

Error: Get "https://api.exercism.org/v1/solutions/latest?exercise_id=hello-world&track_id=python": EOF


How can I successfully download this exercise into my GitHub repository folder?

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