Openstack python API: how to download image from glance using the python api

I am trying to write a python program to download images from glance service. However, I could not find a way to download images from the cloud using the API. In the documentation which can be found here:

http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/sdk_manage_images.html

they explain how to upload images, but not to download them.

The following code shows how to get image object, but I don't now what to do with this object:

import novaclient.v1_1.client as nvclient
name = "cirros"
nova = nvclient.Client(...)
image = nova.images.find(name=name)

is there any way to download the image file and save it on disk using this object "image"?

Without installing glance cli you can download image via HTTP call as described here: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/glanceapi.html#retrieve-raw-image-data

For the python client you can use

img = client.images.get(IMAGE_ID) 

and then call

client.images.data(img) # or img.data()

to retrieve generator by which you can access raw data of image.

Full example (saving image from glance to disk):

img = client.images.find(name='cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-uec')

file_name = "%s.img" % img.name
image_file = open(file_name, 'w+')

for chunk in img.data():
    image_file.write(chunk)