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How do I download a file from a website in python without the users username?

So I am trying to make a download tool to download stuff via a link here is a snippet from my code
if download_choice == "14":
print("Downloading test file to Desktop...")
myfile14 = requests.get(url14)
open('c:/users/%userprofile%/desktop/', 'wb').write(myfile14.content)
I want to make a program that can download stuff via a link. I want it to run on all PCs not only on mine. Here is the error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\David\Desktop\Windows Download Tool\Python\WDT.py", line 100, in <module> open('c:/users/%userprofile%/desktop/', 'wb').write(myfile14.content) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:/users/%userprofile%/desktop/'

Python does not use %userprofile% to get the username of the executing user.
To achieve this, you need to import the package os and run it's getlogin function. This returns a string with the current username
Example:
import os
username = os.getlogin()
if download_choice == "14":
print("Downloading test file to Desktop...")
myfile14 = requests.get(url14)
open(f'C:/Users/{username}/desktop/', 'wb').write(myfile14.content)
I am using an f-string for opening the file, since it is preferred by PEP-8 (it's just correct code-styling)
Attention: This only works on a windows machine

Python Lambda no such file or directory found run time issue

I have a lambda function that is returning back an error that no such file or directory has been found.
To be clear the image below shows the file structure exists in my lambda and it is clear that the directory that I am looking for does exist.
My current file structure in the lambda function
Error Message that I am receiving:
[ERROR] FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'config'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 23, in lambda_handler
    os.chdir("config")
Below is the lambda_handler:
import os
import json
def lambda_handler(event, context):
print(event)
os.chdir("config")
loginInfo = json.load(open('secrets.json'))
return loginInfo
The reason why I am changing the directory to config is so that I can access my secrets.json file.
Please let me know if this is sufficient detail to reproduce.

Running as a Lambda is not the same as running on your dev machine.
If you want to read config - you have several options:
Env variables
Uplaod your config file to s3 and read it from there
Use AWS parameter store and read the config from there,

If you need to run it locally you could check aws sam cli.
https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-cli
It requires you to define a default cloudformation template.yml with setup of your lambda function.
In the end just execute
sam local invoke -e lambda-event.json

I am ignoring the details posted here - I am sure they are valuable - and going to go on a tangent and mention that since you are handling secrets, it is worth investing in a future proof secrets management policy.
https://dev.to/dvddpl/where-do-you-keep-credentials-for-your-lambda-functions-5dno
Using AWS Secrets Manager with Python (Lambda Console)

Python 3 permission error when playing a sound file (mp3, playsound module)

The program was working fine a few days ago, and it just stopped today. Not a single letter has been changed. One of my troubleshooting steps was to remove the file 'output1.mp3' and check if it will work that way, but it didn't. Another thing is that when it wasn't printing out the error, it would continue to play just this one sound file, whether or not it said the correct thing. Here's the latest error I got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main3.py", line 123, in <module>
start()
File "main3.py", line 117, in start
tts(say)
File "main3.py", line 24, in tts
play('output1.mp3')
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\playsound.py", line 35, in _playsoundWin
winCommand('open "' + sound + '" alias', alias)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\playsound.py", line 31, in winCommand
raise PlaysoundException(exceptionMessage)
playsound.PlaysoundException:
Error 275 for command:
open "output1.mp3" alias playsound_0.8842337577803419
Cannot find the specified file. Make sure the path and filename are correct.
Here's the code that I use:
import boto3 # used to 'pythonize' Amazon Polly TTS
import speech # speech recognition
from playsound import playsound as play # for playing sound files
import sys # basically only for exiting
# import locator # for determining the location of the user based on IP address
import locator2 # for confirming auto-detected location
# import locator3 # for definitely confirming auto-detection location
import question # module for answering any question
from datetime import datetime # for displaying the date and time
# from time import sleep # sleep (wai()t for) function
from os import popen as read # for reading command outputs "read('COMMAND').read()"
def tts(text):
polly = boto3.client("polly")
spoken_text = polly.synthesize_speech(Text=str(text),
OutputFormat='mp3',
VoiceId='Brian')
with open('output11.mp3', 'wb') as f:
f.write(spoken_text['AudioStream'].read())
f.close()
play('output11.mp3')
def ask(query):
question.question(query)
response = question.answer
print(response)
tts(response)
ai()
def time():
now = datetime.now()
print("Current date and time: ")
print(now.strftime("%H:%M") + "\n")
tts("It is " + now.strftime("%H:%M"))
ai()
def weather():
response = "Based on your IP address, I've detected that you're located in %s. Is that correct?" % locator2.city
print(response)
tts(response)
speech.speech()
if 'yes' in speech.x:
z = read('weather "%s"' % locator2.city).read()
print(z)
tts(z)
ai()
else:
response = 'Please say the name of the city you would like the weather information for. \n'
print(response)
tts(response)
speech.speech()
city = speech.x
wdr = read('weather "%s"' % city).read()
print(wdr)
tts(wdr)
ai()
def thank():
response = "You're very welcome! \n"
print(response)
tts(response)
ai()
def ext():
response = "Goodbye!"
print(response)
tts(response)
sys.exit()
def error():
response = "Invalid request detected, please try again...\n"
print(response)
tts(response)
ai()
def ai():
print('Started listening - Speak!')
speech.speech()
spoken = speech.x
# TODO new commands should be written above this, and their trigger words below :)
question_words = ['?', 'what', 'where', 'when', 'who', 'how', 'why']
if 'time' in spoken:
time()
elif 'weather' in spoken:
weather()
elif any(word in spoken for word in question_words):
ask(spoken)
elif 'thank' in spoken:
thank()
elif 'exit' or 'quit' or 'deactivate' in spoken:
ext()
else:
error()
def start():
say = "Hello! My name is Dave, and I'm your personal assistant. How may I help you today? \n"
print(say)
tts(say)
ai()
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
start()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
ext()
The speech synthesizer is Amazon Polly. By the way, I was using PyCharm as an IDE and working on Windows 10. When I switch to my Linux machine the speech recognition part breaks.
UPDATE: I was tweaking the code a bit and managed to fix the pyaudio error, but I got another one in the process, this time it was about permissions. Here's the error log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 123, in <module>
start()
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 118, in start
ai()
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 96, in ai
time()
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 39, in time
tts("It is " + now.strftime("%H:%M"))
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 21, in tts
with open('output11.mp3', 'wb') as f:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'output11.mp3'
UPDATE 2: I have been tikering about and I've found that the issue is only present on my Windows 10 machine, the program works fine on Linux.

Try using the absolute path (complete path) of the audio file instead of the relative path.
For example: "C:/Users/Adam/Desktop/dolphin.wav" instead of just "dolphin.wav"
This worked for me.

playsound libs has a windows directories in them.
If this fail only on Linux you should install playsound lib on the linux machine and then copy only the main3.py to it.

Answer for UPDATE2:
Copy output11.mp3 to another location and change the path to the new location:
with open('CHANGE-THIS-PATH', 'wb') as f:
Also make sure python run as administrator.

I solved this problem by moving the .py and .wav files to a folder less deep inside the file system.

I just renamed the audio file from sample.wav to sample
and then run it as playsound('sample.wav')
Luckily It ran.
Then I came to know that previously it was stored as sample.wav.wav.
So let's keep your audio file name as output.wav and try running your audio file as:
playsound('output.wav.wav') # or else rename it to output and run as
playsound('output.wav') # likewise for other audio formats too

Flask Error with wsgi_handler

I am trying to use WSGI on Windows Server to run a simple flask app. I keep running into the following error:
Error occurred while reading WSGI handler: Traceback (most recent call
last): File "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_site\wfastcgi.py", line 711, in
main env, handler = read_wsgi_handler(response.physical_path) File
"c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_site\wfastcgi.py", line 568, in
read_wsgi_handler return env, get_wsgi_handler(handler_name) File
"c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_site\wfastcgi.py", line 551, in
get_wsgi_handler raise ValueError('"%s" could not be imported' %
handler_name) ValueError: "app.app" could not be imported StdOut:
StdErr
For my site I configured a handler to call the FastCGIModule from Microsoft Web Platform installer
My app file looks as such:
from flask import Flask, request, jsonify
from analyzers import analyzer
import write_log
app = Flask(__name__)
#app.route("/")
def test():
return "Test load"
#app.route('/analyze', methods=['POST'])
def parse():
text = request.json['text']
name = request.json['name']
model = request.json['model']
try:
convert_flag = request.json['convert_flag']
except KeyError:
convert_flag = False
results= analyzer(text, name, model, convert_dose=convert_flag)
write_log.write_log(text, name, model, results)
return jsonify(results)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()
If I comment out the custom import of my analyzer script and my write_log script along with the POST method things will run, so I know I must be messing something up there.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Paul

I had the same issue and the problem was with a third-party library. What's causing your problem is certainly something different, but here's something I did to identify my issue and may help you as well:
Open wfastcgi.py
Locate the method get_wsgi_handler (probably on line 519)
There's a try/except inside a while module_name statement
Add raise to the end of the except block and save the file, like this:
except ImportError:
...
raise
Access your website URL again and check your logs, they now should be more detailed about what caused the ImportError and will point you in the right direction to fix the issue

Python: Run Script Under Same Window

I am trying to setup a program where when someone enters a command it will run that command which is a script in a sub folder called "lib".
Here is my code:
import os
while 1:
cmd = input(' >: ')
for file in os.listdir('lib'):
if file.endswith('.py'):
try:
os.system(str(cmd + '.py'))
except FileNotFoundError:
print('Command Not Found.')
I have a file: lib/new_user.py But when I try to run it I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Daniel/Desktop/Wasm/Exec.py", line 8, in <module>
exec(str(cmd + '.py'))
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'new_user' is not defined
Does anyone know a way around this? I would prefer if the script would be able to be executed under the same window so it doesn't open a completely new one up to run the code there. This may be a really Noob question but I have not been able to find anything on this.
Thanks,
Daniel Alexander

os.system(os.path.join('lib', cmd + '.py'))
You're invoking new_user.py but it is not in the current directory. You need to construct lib/new_user.py.
(I'm not sure what any of this has to do with windows.)
However, a better approach for executing Python code from Python is making them into modules and using import:
import importlib
cmd_module = importlib.import_module(cmd, 'lib')
cmd_module.execute()
(Assuming you have a function execute defined in lib/new_user.py)