[Python-Dev] Issue 6081: format string using mapping rather than kwargs

[Eric Smith]

Filip Gruszczyński wrote:
>> From that spec, a straightforward API falls out:
>>
>>    def format_mapping(self, kwds):
>>      # Method body actually written in C, so it can
>>      # easily invoke the internal formatting operation
>>      return do_string_format(self, NULL, kwds)
> 
> Thanks a lot for the advice, I'll provide according patch hopefully in
> the few days.

I think this is basically my patch, with the method renamed, and needing 
tests.