How to store file in Windows OS instead of `/tmp` unix?

Question

The following code works good on unix-base system, and use /tmp for store file, But how can I use it under windows OS family?

    local_filename, headers = urllib.request.urlretrieve('http://127.0.0.1/translations/python-3.7.3.exe')
    print(local_filename)
    fd = open(local_filename)
    fd.close()

Answer 1

From the docs:

Retrieve a URL into a temporary location on disk.

If you don't supply the filename argument, then urlretrieve() will call tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() to create a file on whatever is the location for temporary files on your operating system. That works under Windows too (the file will be created under %TEMP%).

If you want a specific location, pass a filename argument.