如何避免python在代码所在目录运行文件？

Question

I'm writing a script that will download an executable from the internet, which will create more files. Now, if I download the file, it will be downloaded to the directory I told it, but when I open it using os.startfile(), it creates the files to the directory where the python script is located. How can I avoid that?

Answer 1

Do a os.chdir() before trying to run the executable:

os.chdir('<the target folder where you want the files to be created>')
...
os.startfile('<path to where the executable was downloaded>')

Answer 2

Either you can move the .py file to any other directory. or You can use os.chdir() to change the current working directory of the script during the runtime.

os.chdir('/path/to/directory')