diff --git a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
index 35b652b..f00091b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
@@ -1279,6 +1279,116 @@
                     return i
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, list, zip(BadSeq(), BadSeq()))
 
+    def test_format(self):
+        # Test the basic machinery of the format() builtin.  Don't test
+        #  the specifics of the various formatters
+        self.assertEqual(format(3, ''), '3')
+
+        # Returns some classes to use for various tests.  There's
+        #  an old-style version, and a new-style version
+        def classes_new():
+            class A(object):
+                def __init__(self, x):
+                    self.x = x
+                def __format__(self, format_spec):
+                    return str(self.x) + format_spec
+            class DerivedFromA(A):
+                pass
+
+            class Simple(object): pass
+            class DerivedFromSimple(Simple):
+                def __init__(self, x):
+                    self.x = x
+                def __format__(self, format_spec):
+                    return str(self.x) + format_spec
+            class DerivedFromSimple2(DerivedFromSimple): pass
+            return A, DerivedFromA, DerivedFromSimple, DerivedFromSimple2
+
+        def class_test(A, DerivedFromA, DerivedFromSimple, DerivedFromSimple2):
+            self.assertEqual(format(A(3), 'spec'), '3spec')
+            self.assertEqual(format(DerivedFromA(4), 'spec'), '4spec')
+            self.assertEqual(format(DerivedFromSimple(5), 'abc'), '5abc')
+            self.assertEqual(format(DerivedFromSimple2(10), 'abcdef'),
+                             '10abcdef')
+
+        class_test(*classes_new())
+
+        def empty_format_spec(value):
+            # test that:
+            #  format(x, '') == str(x)
+            #  format(x) == str(x)
+            self.assertEqual(format(value, ""), str(value))
+            self.assertEqual(format(value), str(value))
+
+        # for builtin types, format(x, "") == str(x)
+        empty_format_spec(17**13)
+        empty_format_spec(1.0)
+        empty_format_spec(3.1415e104)
+        empty_format_spec(-3.1415e104)
+        empty_format_spec(3.1415e-104)
+        empty_format_spec(-3.1415e-104)
+        empty_format_spec(object)
+        empty_format_spec(None)
+
+        # TypeError because self.__format__ returns the wrong type
+        class BadFormatResult:
+            def __format__(self, format_spec):
+                return 1.0
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, format, BadFormatResult(), "")
+
+        # TypeError because format_spec is not unicode or str
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, format, object(), 4)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, format, object(), object())
+
+        # tests for object.__format__ really belong elsewhere, but
+        #  there's no good place to put them
+        x = object().__format__('')
+        self.assertTrue(x.startswith('<object object at'))
+
+        # first argument to object.__format__ must be string
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, object().__format__, 3)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, object().__format__, object())
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, object().__format__, None)
+
+        # --------------------------------------------------------------------
+        # Issue #7994: object.__format__ with a non-empty format string is
+        #  pending deprecated
+        def test_deprecated_format_string(obj, fmt_str, should_raise_warning):
+            with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+                warnings.simplefilter("always", PendingDeprecationWarning)
+                format(obj, fmt_str)
+            if should_raise_warning:
+                self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
+                self.assertIsInstance(w[0].message, PendingDeprecationWarning)
+                self.assertIn('object.__format__ with a non-empty format '
+                              'string', str(w[0].message))
+            else:
+                self.assertEqual(len(w), 0)
+
+        fmt_strs = ['', 's']
+
+        class A:
+            def __format__(self, fmt_str):
+                return format('', fmt_str)
+
+        for fmt_str in fmt_strs:
+            test_deprecated_format_string(A(), fmt_str, False)
+
+        class B:
+            pass
+
+        class C(object):
+            pass
+
+        for cls in [object, B, C]:
+            for fmt_str in fmt_strs:
+                test_deprecated_format_string(cls(), fmt_str, len(fmt_str) != 0)
+        # --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        # make sure we can take a subclass of str as a format spec
+        class DerivedFromStr(str): pass
+        self.assertEqual(format(0, DerivedFromStr('10')), '         0')
+
     def test_bin(self):
         self.assertEqual(bin(0), '0b0')
         self.assertEqual(bin(1), '0b1')
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 0ada5cc..f6c38dd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -609,13 +609,16 @@
         self.assertEqual('{0}'.format({}), '{}')
         self.assertEqual('{0}'.format([]), '[]')
         self.assertEqual('{0}'.format([1]), '[1]')
-        self.assertEqual('{0}'.format(E('data')), 'E(data)')
-        self.assertEqual('{0:^10}'.format(E('data')), ' E(data)  ')
-        self.assertEqual('{0:^10s}'.format(E('data')), ' E(data)  ')
+
         self.assertEqual('{0:d}'.format(G('data')), 'G(data)')
-        self.assertEqual('{0:>15s}'.format(G('data')), ' string is data')
         self.assertEqual('{0!s}'.format(G('data')), 'string is data')
 
+        msg = 'object.__format__ with a non-empty format string is deprecated'
+        with support.check_warnings((msg, PendingDeprecationWarning)):
+            self.assertEqual('{0:^10}'.format(E('data')), ' E(data)  ')
+            self.assertEqual('{0:^10s}'.format(E('data')), ' E(data)  ')
+            self.assertEqual('{0:>15s}'.format(G('data')), ' string is data')
+
         self.assertEqual("{0:date: %Y-%m-%d}".format(I(year=2007,
                                                        month=8,
                                                        day=27)),