How to download a image in flickr by Python urllib.urlretrieve()?

I have a problem that when dowloading a image from flickr.com,the python function urllib.urlretrieve() always return an error

[Errno socket error] (10060, 'Operation timed out')

for example:

import urllib

url = "http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/4207030547_23e6000d29_o.gif"
urllib.urlretrieve(url,"C://tmp.gif")

I am Chinese,and I dont know if the "time out" has anything to do with the speed of the the internet in China.

Now it falied in downing the .gif! what should i do about this? THX~~~

Any suggestion is appreciated~~~

I can't reproduce.

The exact same code downloaded the picture.

I'm using python 2.7

It has to do either with the server (at that time) or with your internet connection.