Issue #29193: A format string argument for string.Formatter.format()
is now positional-only.
diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index a0977b6..03eaf3b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -95,9 +95,9 @@
an arbitrary set of positional and keyword arguments.
It is just a wrapper that calls :meth:`vformat`.
- .. deprecated:: 3.5
- Passing a format string as keyword argument *format_string* has been
- deprecated.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ A format string argument is now :ref:`positional-only
+ <positional-only_parameter>`.
.. method:: vformat(format_string, args, kwargs)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index a2e6422..c4814e2 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -147,3 +147,9 @@
that may require changes to your code.
+Changes in the Python API
+-------------------------
+
+* A format string argument for :meth:`string.Formatter.format`
+ is now :ref:`positional-only <positional-only_parameter>`.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`29193`.)