title: Python urllib.urlretrieve gif image - loading meta information failed
body: <p>very simple code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import urllib
  data = urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.python.org/pics','pythonHi.gif'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>executing this, the image gets downloaded to my hard drive allright, but when i try to open it i get this error: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Loading ‘pythonHi.gif’ failed
  Loading meta information failed.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I did try multiple programms to open my gif image.
  What am i doing wrong?</p>