Named parameters to format?

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Hello all,

I've been thinking about what I'm going to do once I hit the need for
gettext support.  I'm not really sure for things that have multiple
variables in their string.  In python land, I'd do something like:

  gettext("foo %(bar) %(baz)") % {"bar": "bleh",
                                  "baz": "wonk"}

This would give translators an opportunity to move the right parameters
to the right place in the string.  However, this appears to not be
possible in our current format system, because there's no place to put
keyword based substitutable arguments.  Syntactic word ordering varies
from natural language to natural language, so...

Surely someone's run into this before?  What's the right solution?

 - Chris