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

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

R. David Murray 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