Issue #23671: string.Template now allows to specify the "self" parameter as

keyword argument.  string.Formatter now allows to specify the "self" and
the "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index f9da5fa..eab9f37 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ implementation as the built-in :meth:`format` method.
       an arbitrary set of positional and keyword arguments.
       :meth:`format` is just a wrapper that calls :meth:`vformat`.
 
+      .. deprecated:: 3.5
+         Passing a format string as keyword argument *format_string* has been
+         deprecated.
+
    .. method:: vformat(format_string, args, kwargs)
 
       This function does the actual work of formatting.  It is exposed as a
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index 44915a3..aa5af04 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -526,6 +526,10 @@ Deprecated Python modules, functions and methods
   :func:`~http.cookies.Morsel.set` method in order to avoid the deprecation
   warning.
 
+* Passing a format string as keyword argument *format_string* to the
+  :meth:`~string.Formatter.format` method of the :class:`string.Formatter`
+  class has been deprecated.
+
 
 Deprecated functions and types of the C API
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