Issue 9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string from a PendingDeprecationWarning to a DeprecationWarning.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
+ to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
+ In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
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- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
arbitrarily complex expressions. This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.