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

[Eric Smith]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Moving the decision of "how am I going to be called" to the time of
> writing the format string is a bit odd.
> 
> On the other hand, the specially crafted format string does have the
> virtue of travelling far more easily through any APIs that wrap the
> basic format() method (since it doesn't need special treatment to make
> its way through the wrapping code).

Completely agree on all points. Now we're just left with "is it worth 
expanding the str api for this?". I don't feel strongly either way.

--
Eric.