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Originally Posted by skybook
Oh, that is not what happened...
I got a file named dicthtml.zip?
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I find the -o switch to be inconsistent; sometimes it renames the file, sometimes it doesn't. I'm 90% certain it's a bug, but since penelope is no longer actively developed, I doubt it'll be looked at unless someone else decides to (I'm not strong enough in Python to fix it myself, and I don't have the time at the moment to really teach myself the language or delve deeply into the code to figure out what's going on).
As for cygwin, since the Windows command prompt seems to work well enough, you don't actually need it and can uninstall it. Otherwise, if you wanted to do it all in the cygwin shell, you'd use the cygwin setup.exe file that you used to install cygwin in the first place to also install the cygwin versions of python and python-pip as well (just re-run the .exe file; it'll remember your installation settings), and cygwin will then use those versions instead of the native Windows version. It would save you from having to type in python -m all the time, but probably not much else. You'd probably only want to keep cygwin if you were to use some of the other utilities it offers. If you have no intention to and just want to use penelope, there's really no reason to keep cygwin around either if you're trying to save disk space.