title: Copy text from website to text/excel file
body: <p>I'm trying to create a simple (hopefully) Python script that copies the text from this address: </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD" rel="nofollow">http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD</a></p>
  
  <p>to either a simple text file or an excel spreadsheet.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried utilising urllib and resquests libraries, but every time I would try and run a very basic script, the shell wouldn't display anything.</p>
  
  <p>For example, </p>
  
  <pre><code>import requests
  data = requests.get('http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD')
  data.text
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.</p>