[$] The recurring request for keyword indexing in Python

Python has keyword arguments for functions that is a useful (and popular)feature; it can make reading the code more clear and eliminate thepossibility of passing arguments in the wrong order. Python can also indexan object in various ways to refer to a subset or an aspect of the object.Bringing the idea of keywords to indexing would provide a way to get the claritybenefit for indexing operations; doing so has been discussed in Pythoncircles for a long time.Some renewed interest, in the formof lengthy discussions on the python-ideas mailing list and a new Python enhancementproposal (PEP), look like they just might take keyword indexing over the finish line.