Function to download latest asset from a Github Repo

function.py

import requests
import urllib.request
import os

def update_from_github(github_username, github_repo, github_asset, local_directory):
    github_repo_url     = 'https://github.com/{}/{}/releases/latest'.format(github_username, github_repo)
    github_asset_url    = requests.get(github_repo_url).url.replace('tag', 'download') + '/' + github_asset
    destination         = os.path.join(local_directory, github_asset)

    try:
        print('Deleting current {}'.format(github_asset))
        os.remove(destination)
        print('Done!')
    except OSError:
        print('{} does not exist!'.format(github_asset))
        pass

    try:
        print('Downloading latest {}'.format(github_asset))
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(github_asset_url, destination)
        print('Done!')
    except OSError:
        print('Could not download {} for some reason!'.format(github_asset))
        pass