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r84790 | eric.smith | 2010-09-13 16:48:43 -0400 (Mon, 13 Sep 2010) | 8 lines
Issue 7994: Make object.__format__() raise a PendingDeprecationWarning
if the format string is not empty. Manually merge r79596 and r84772
from 2.x.
Also, apparently test_format() from test_builtin never made it into
3.x. I've added it as well. It tests the basic format()
infrastructure.
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