'Return a Route object based on a route name.
:param  name: The name of the route
:type   name: ``str``
:return:  A Route object for the named route
:rtype:   :class:`GCERoute`'

def ex_get_route(self, name):

    request = ('/global/routes/%s' % name)
    response = self.connection.request(request, method='GET').object
    return self._to_route(response)
