Shlomigreen

def download_from_gist(gist_id, outdir=None, encoding='utf-8'):
  import json, os
  from urllib.request import urlopen
  
  gist_api = urlopen("https://api.github.com/gists/" + gist_id)
  gist_json = json.load(gist_api)
  gist_src = {filename: urlopen(metadata['raw_url']).read().decode(encoding) for filename, metadata in gist_json['files'].items()}
  
  if outdir is None:
    from tempfile import mkdtemp