Message 81935 - Python tracker

Answering first question msg81873.

Without colon separator, this might be considered confusing:

>>> (
...     '{d}{s}{f}{f}'.format(3, 'foo', 3.14, 2.72),
...     '{d}{s}{f}{f}'.format(d=3, s='foo', f=3.14)
... )
('3foo3.1400002.720000', '3foo3.143.14')