[issue33647] Make string.replace accept a dict instead of two arguments

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

That is not kwargs, that's a passing a dict.  Which is what you would want, since the strings you want to replace might not be valid identifiers, and so couldn't be passed as keyword arguments.

I think I'm -0.5 on this.  I don't think complicating the api is worth the benefit, given that you can already chain replace calls.  (And note that before dicts became ordered by language definition this would have been a non-starter, which is probably also a mark against it.)

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nosy: +r.david.murray
title: Make string.replace accept **kwargs instead of two arguments -> Make string.replace accept a dict instead of two arguments

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