Is there a Pylons equivalent of CherryPy's serve_file ? I'm trying to allow file download for files that are not in the 'public' directory

In cherry py, it'd go something like this: from cherrypy.lib.static import serve_file class Root: @cherrypy.expose def download(self, name): return serve_file(os.path.join(download_dir, name), content_type='text/plain')

Many thanks.