diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/default.nix
index 72f9f277ae7a07b..0e0f2a3bdd711be 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 , buildPythonPackage
 , pythonOlder
 , fetchFromGitHub
-, pythonAtLeast
+, fetchpatch2
 , poetry-core
 , snowballstemmer
 , tomli
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pydocstyle";
   version = "6.3.0";
-  format = "pyproject";
+  pyproject = true;
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
 
@@ -23,6 +23,15 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     hash = "sha256-MjRrnWu18f75OjsYIlOLJK437X3eXnlW8WkkX7vdS6k=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle/pull/656
+    (fetchpatch2 {
+      name = "python312-compat.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle/commit/306c7c8f2d863bdc098a65d2dadbd4703b9b16d5.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-bqnoLz1owzDpFqlZn8z4Z+RzKCYBsI0PqqeOtjLxnMo=";
+    })
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     poetry-core
   ];
@@ -46,11 +55,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pytestCheckHook
   ] ++ passthru.optional-dependencies.toml;
 
-  disabledTests = lib.optionals (pythonAtLeast "3.12") [
-    "test_simple_fstring"
-    "test_fstring_with_args"
-  ];
-
   disabledTestPaths = [
     "src/tests/test_integration.py" # runs pip install
   ];