I can download a CSV file from Google Docs with wget:
wget
wget --no-check-certificate --output-document=locations.csv \'https://docs.google.com/spre
i would use requests
import requests r = requests.get('https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArM5yzzCw9IZdEdLWlpHT1FCcUpYQ2RjWmZYWmNwbXc&output=csv') data = r.content