[Python-Dev] converting the stdlib to str.format

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Maybe we should ditch support for 
> positional arguments and just accept a single dictionary as the sole 
> parameter to format().
> 
> "{num} occurs {num} times in this format string".format(dict(num=2))

If named arguments were to become mandatory, I'd want
to be able to write that as

   "...{num}...".format(num = 2)

-- 
Greg