diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-cache/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-cache/default.nix
index 2651cefa9931..1e4b0299be29 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-cache/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-cache/default.nix
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "requests-cache";
   version = "1.2.0";
-  format = "pyproject";
+  pyproject = true;
 
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.8";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "requests-cache";