How can I copy a remote image over HTTP to gtk.gdk.pixbuf by Python?

this is first post here and I am a noob programmer.

This may be a stupid question.

I'd like to create a personal Twitter notifier on GNOE Desktop. And I've decided to use pynotify and Tweepy.

Now I just want to make pynotify show Twitter user's icon, and there seems to be 2 ways using pynotify; setting URI to local image file, or using pixbuf API. I suppose downloading the icon and setting URI to the local icon by urllib is easier though don't want to make loc开发者_JS百科al cache file. Is it possible to pass directly a remote image to pixbuf?

did you mean something like this?