Dispatching With "with"

I guess to some degree, yes. It wouldn't be necessary to do any of this of course if Python had a multi-line lambda, since you could instead just say:

   app.get('/', lambda req: whatever)

Though, now that I think about it, I guess there's no reason not to just do:

    def something(request): pass
    app.get('/', something)

or better still

    @app.get('/')
    def something(request): pass

I just thought using 'with' was an interesting hack.

My work-in-progress Python web framework called Webify (http://github.com/jperla/webify/tree/master) uses decorators for URL dispatching. It's definitely way better than a separate config of tuples.