Issue #19165: The formatter module graduates to full deprecation.

Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst

@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ Unsupported Operating Systems
 Deprecated Python modules, functions and methods
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-* None yet.
+* The :mod:`formatter` module has now graduated to full deprecation and is still
+  slated for removal in Python 3.6.
 
 
 Deprecated functions and types of the C API

Lib/formatter.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ manage and inserting data into the output.
 import sys
 import warnings
 warnings.warn('the formatter module is deprecated and will be removed in '
-              'Python 3.6', PendingDeprecationWarning)
+              'Python 3.6', DeprecationWarning)
 
 
 AS_IS = None

Misc/NEWS

@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #19165: The formatter module now raises DeprecationWarning instead of
+  PendingDeprecationWarning.
+
 - Issue #13936: Remove the ability of datetime.time instances to be considered
   false in boolean contexts.