diff -r 858cb1538531 Doc/library/collections.rst
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst	Sat Nov 14 15:14:58 2015 -0800
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst	Sun Nov 15 22:23:25 2015 +0200
@@ -792,6 +792,10 @@ they add the ability to access fields by
     .. versionchanged:: 3.1
         Added support for *rename*.
 
+    .. deprecated:: 3.6
+        Passing *verbose* and *rename* parameters as positional argument is
+        deprecated.  Use keyword arguments.
+
 
 .. doctest::
     :options: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
diff -r 858cb1538531 Lib/collections/__init__.py
--- a/Lib/collections/__init__.py	Sat Nov 14 15:14:58 2015 -0800
+++ b/Lib/collections/__init__.py	Sun Nov 15 22:23:25 2015 +0200
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class {typename}(tuple):
     {name} = _property(_itemgetter({index:d}), doc='Alias for field number {index:d}')
 '''
 
-def namedtuple(typename, field_names, verbose=False, rename=False):
+def _namedtuple(typename, field_names, verbose=False, rename=False):
     """Returns a new subclass of tuple with named fields.
 
     >>> Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y'])
@@ -420,12 +420,22 @@ def namedtuple(typename, field_names, ve
     # sys._getframe is not defined (Jython for example) or sys._getframe is not
     # defined for arguments greater than 0 (IronPython).
     try:
-        result.__module__ = _sys._getframe(1).f_globals.get('__name__', '__main__')
+        result.__module__ = _sys._getframe(2).f_globals.get('__name__', '__main__')
     except (AttributeError, ValueError):
         pass
 
     return result
 
+def namedtuple(typename, field_names, *args, **kwargs):
+    if args:
+        import warnings
+        warnings.warn("Passing 'verbose' as positional argument is deprecated",
+                      DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+        if len(args) > 1:
+            warnings.warn("Passing 'rename' as positional argument is deprecated",
+                          DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+    return _namedtuple(typename, field_names, *args, **kwargs)
+
 
 ########################################################################
 ###  Counter
diff -r 858cb1538531 Lib/test/test_collections.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_collections.py	Sat Nov 14 15:14:58 2015 -0800
+++ b/Lib/test/test_collections.py	Sun Nov 15 22:23:25 2015 +0200
@@ -421,6 +421,32 @@ class TestNamedTuple(unittest.TestCase):
         a.w = 5
         self.assertEqual(a.__dict__, {'w': 5})
 
+    def test_bad_arguments(self):
+        with self.assertWarnsRegex(DeprecationWarning,
+                    "Passing 'verbose' as positional argument is deprecated"):
+            namedtuple('Point', 'x y', False)
+        with self.assertWarnsRegex(DeprecationWarning,
+                    "Passing 'verbose' as positional argument is deprecated"):
+            namedtuple('Point', 'x y', False, False)
+        with self.assertWarnsRegex(DeprecationWarning,
+                    "Passing 'rename' as positional argument is deprecated"):
+            namedtuple('Point', 'x y', False, False)
+
+        with support.check_warnings(('', DeprecationWarning)), \
+             self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError,
+                    'takes from 2 to 4 positional arguments but 5 were given'):
+            namedtuple('Point', 'x y', False, False, False)
+        with support.check_warnings(('', DeprecationWarning)), \
+             self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError,
+                    "got multiple values for argument 'verbose'"):
+            namedtuple('Point', 'x y', False, False, verbose=False)
+        with support.check_warnings(('', DeprecationWarning)), \
+             self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError,
+                    "got multiple values for argument 'rename'"):
+            namedtuple('Point', 'x y', False, False, rename=False)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError,
+                    "got an unexpected keyword argument 'spam'"):
+            namedtuple('Point', 'x y', spam=False)
 
 ################################################################################
 ### Abstract Base Classes