diff --git a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
index 61d4046..b094a65 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
@@ -1279,14 +1279,14 @@
 
         # --------------------------------------------------------------------
         # Issue #7994: object.__format__ with a non-empty format string is
-        #  pending deprecated
+        #  deprecated
         def test_deprecated_format_string(obj, fmt_str, should_raise_warning):
             with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
-                warnings.simplefilter("always", PendingDeprecationWarning)
+                warnings.simplefilter("always", DeprecationWarning)
                 format(obj, fmt_str)
             if should_raise_warning:
                 self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
-                self.assertIsInstance(w[0].message, PendingDeprecationWarning)
+                self.assertIsInstance(w[0].message, DeprecationWarning)
                 self.assertIn('object.__format__ with a non-empty format '
                               'string', str(w[0].message))
             else:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 5fc30db..ace3736 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@
         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)):
+        with support.check_warnings((msg, DeprecationWarning)):
             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')