diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index 521e391b8d5f9db0ebb6986f574a50f599361b12..53ba1ad6f5911f6e2fc0d4f6141ba0fdc98b4feb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -715,6 +715,24 @@ def test_mod(self):
         self.assertEqual(b, b'hello,\x00world!')
         self.assertIs(type(b), self.type2test)
 
+        def check(fmt, vals, result):
+            b = self.type2test(fmt)
+            b = b % vals
+            self.assertEqual(b, result)
+            self.assertIs(type(b), self.type2test)
+
+        # A set of tests adapted from test_unicode:UnicodeTest.test_formatting
+        check(b'...%(foo)b...', {b'foo':b"abc"}, b'...abc...')
+        check(b'...%(f(o)o)b...', {b'f(o)o':b"abc", b'foo':b'bar'}, b'...abc...')
+        check(b'...%(foo)b...', {b'foo':b"abc",b'def':123}, b'...abc...')
+        check(b'%*b', (5, b'abc',), b'  abc')
+        check(b'%*b', (-5, b'abc',), b'abc  ')
+        check(b'%*.*b', (5, 2, b'abc',), b'   ab')
+        check(b'%*.*b', (5, 3, b'abc',), b'  abc')
+        check(b'%i %*.*b', (10, 5, 3, b'abc',), b'10   abc')
+        check(b'%i%b %*.*b', (10, b'3', 5, 3, b'abc',), b'103   abc')
+        check(b'%c', b'a', b'a')
+
     def test_imod(self):
         b = self.type2test(b'hello, %b!')
         orig = b