Change file save directory

Question

I have a script to download a PDF from a URL working, but it saves it to the same directory the python script is in. I would like to save it to another directory

I've tried changing this with save_path however it isn't working, but I also do not get any errors

# Import all needed modules and tools
from fileinput import filename
import os
import os.path
from datetime import datetime
import urllib.request
import requests

# Disable SSL and HTTPS Certificate Warnings
import urllib3
urllib3.disable_warnings()

resp = requests.get('url.pdf', verify=False)

response= urllib.request.urlretrieve('url.pdf',
filename = 'civil.pdf')

save_path = "C: my preferred directory"

Answer 1

Simply you can use it directly with filename

urllib.request.urlretrieve('url.pdf',
                           filename='C:\\you_preferred directory\\civil.pdf')

And if you want download with requests

with open("C:\\you_preferred directory\\civil.pdf", 'wb') as f: 
    f.write(resp.content)

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Eventually you should change current directory before downloading

os.chdir("C:\\you_preferred directory\\")

and then you can use short filename='civil.pdf' and open('civil.pdf', 'wb')

Answer 2

Solved, per comments

# Import all needed modules and tools
from fileinput import filename
import os
import os.path
from datetime import datetime
import urllib.request
import requests

# Disable SSL and HTTPS Certificate Warnings
import urllib3
urllib3.disable_warnings()
resp = requests.get('url.org', verify=False)

# Download and name the PDF file from the URL
response= urllib.request.urlretrieve('url.pdf',
filename = 'C:\\ location')

# Save to the preferred directory
with open("C:\\ location", 'wb') as f: f.write(resp.content)