Pyramid-like view configuration in Django

Recently I've started a new project that allows us to use Pyramid-like view configuration in Django - https://github.com/avanov/Rhetoric

If you ever had a chance to implement a pyramid-based web app, you might have noticed how flexible its URL Dispatcher becomes [when you have to deal with RESTful endpoints][1]. Now with Rhetoric, the same functionality is available in Django.

The project is still in early development, but already provides a complete pattern matching syntax and a method-based URL dispatcher.

Example:

# project_name.urls
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
# ... other imports ...
from rhetoric import Configurator

# ... various definitions ...

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # ... a number of standard django url definitions ...
)

# Rhetorical routing
# ------------------
config = Configurator()
config.add_route('test.new.routes', '/test/new/routes/{param:[a-z]+}')
config.scan(ignore=[
    # do not scan test modules included into the project tree
    re.compile('^.*[.]?tests[.]?.*$').match,
    # do not scan settings modules
    re.compile('^settings[_]?[_a-z09]*$').match,
])
urlpatterns.extend(config.django_urls())

# project_name.some_app.some_module

from rhetoric import view_config


@view_config(route_name="test.new.routes", renderer='json')
def view_get(request, param):
    return {
        'Hello': param
    }

@view_config(route_name="test.new.routes", renderer='json', request_method='POST')
def view_post(request, param):
    return {
        'Hello': 'POST'
    }

[1]: http://blog.delaguardia.com.mx/pyramid-view-configuration-let-me-count-the-ways.html