How closely have you looked at requests' documentation?
In the Quickstart documentation the following is described
r = requests.get(url, stream=True)
r.raw.read(amount)
The better way, however, to do this is:
fd = open(filename, 'wb')
r = requests.get(url, stream=True)
for chunk in r.iter_content(amount):
fd.write(chunk)
fd.close()
(Assuming you are saving the downloaded content to a file.)