diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/playwright/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/playwright/default.nix
index 13e29eacc741..31ded41872f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/playwright/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/playwright/default.nix
@@ -55,10 +55,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
     substituteInPlace pyproject.toml \
       --replace 'requires = ["setuptools==68.2.2", "setuptools-scm==8.0.4", "wheel==0.41.2", "auditwheel==5.4.0"]' \
-                'requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm", "wheel"]' \
-      --replace 'version_file = "playwright/_repo_version.py"' ""
-    # FIXME version_file is available in setuptools-scm>=8.0.0
-    echo "__version__ = version = '${version}'" > playwright/_repo_version.py
+                'requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm", "wheel"]'
 
     # Skip trying to download and extract the driver.
     # This is done manually in postInstall instead.