diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/levenshtein/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/levenshtein/default.nix
index 2a297571b3f1..38bd559a8568 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/levenshtein/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/levenshtein/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { lib
 , stdenv
 , buildPythonPackage
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, pythonOlder
 , cmake
 , cython_3
+, fetchFromGitHub
 , pytestCheckHook
+, pythonOlder
 , rapidfuzz
 , rapidfuzz-cpp
 , scikit-build
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "levenshtein";
-  version = "0.23.0";
-  format = "pyproject";
+  version = "0.24.0";
+  pyproject = true;
 
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.8";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "maxbachmann";
     repo = "Levenshtein";
     rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-xQimslz/G6nf2uYerLSaRAK5gvmfDmWTzEx/fh+nqg0=";
+    hash = "sha256-Vf12MBfy4IoTsXSYdKBMjxyMCaba21fiG0g1bPmrUmI=";
     fetchSubmodules = true; ## for vendored `rapidfuzz-cpp`
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-docx/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-docx/default.nix
index 37a10bdd542c..6a5c01d216da 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-docx/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-docx/default.nix
@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "docx"
   ];
 
+  disabledTests = [
+    # https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx/issues/1302
+    "it_accepts_unicode_providing_there_is_no_encoding_declaration"
+  ];
+
+  pytestFlagsArray = [
+    "-W"
+    "ignore::DeprecationWarning"
+  ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Create and update Microsoft Word .docx files";
     homepage = "https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/";