How can I download a file to a specific directory?
Question: I have been recently trying to make a program in python that downloads files
to a specific directory. I am using Ubuntu and so far i have this

    
    
    import os
    import getpass
    import urllib2
    
    y = getpass.getuser()
    
    if not os.access('/home/' + y + '/newdir/', os.F_OK):
        print("Making New Directory")
        os.mkdir('/home/' + y + '/newdir/')
    
    url = ("http://example.com/Examplefile.ex")
    file_name = url.split('/')[-1]
    u = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    f = open(file_name, 'wb')
    meta = u.info()
    file_size = int(meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0])
    print "Downloading: %s Bytes: %s" % (file_name, file_size)
    
    file_size_dl = 0
    block_sz = 8192
    while True:
        buffer = u.read(block_sz)
        if not buffer:
        break
    
        file_size_dl += len(buffer)
        f.write(buffer)
        status = r"%10d  [%3.2f%%]" % (file_size_dl, file_size_dl * 100. / file_size)
        status = status + chr(8)*(len(status)+1)
        print status,
    
    f.close()
    

this currently downloads the file to the same directory how could I change the
directory it downloads to?

fixed it new code:

    
    
    import os
    import getpass
    import urllib2
    
    y = getpass.getuser()
    
    if not os.access('/home/' + y + '/newdir/', os.F_OK):
        print("Making New Directory")
        os.mkdir('/home/' + y + '/newdir/')
    
    os.chdir('/home/'+y+'/newdir/')
    
    url = ("http://example.com/Examplefile.ex")
    file_name = url.split('/')[-1]
    u = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    f = open(file_name, 'wb')
    meta = u.info()
    file_size = int(meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0])
    print "Downloading: %s Bytes: %s" % (file_name, file_size)
    
    file_size_dl = 0
    block_sz = 8192
    while True:
        buffer = u.read(block_sz)
        if not buffer:
        break
    
        file_size_dl += len(buffer)
        f.write(buffer)
        status = r"%10d  [%3.2f%%]" % (file_size_dl, file_size_dl * 100. / file_size)
        status = status + chr(8)*(len(status)+1)
        print status,
    
    f.close()
    


Answer: Sorry Guys I was Being stupid but to Answer the Question I added

    
    
    os.chdir('/home/' + y + '/newdir/')
    

right after the first if statement ex:

    
    
    import os
    import getpass
    import urllib2
    
    y = getpass.getuser()
    
    if not os.access('/home/' + y + '/newdir/', os.F_OK):
        print("Making New Directory")
        os.mkdir('/home/' + y + '/newdir/')
    
    os.chdir('/home/'+y+'/newdir/')
    
    url = ("http://example.com/Examplefile.ex")
    file_name = url.split('/')[-1]
    u = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    f = open(file_name, 'wb')
    meta = u.info()
    file_size = int(meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0])
    print "Downloading: %s Bytes: %s" % (file_name, file_size)
    
    file_size_dl = 0
    block_sz = 8192
    while True:
        buffer = u.read(block_sz)
        if not buffer:
        break
    
        file_size_dl += len(buffer)
        f.write(buffer)
        status = r"%10d  [%3.2f%%]" % (file_size_dl, file_size_dl * 100. / file_size)
        status = status + chr(8)*(len(status)+1)
        print status,
    
    f.close()
    

