diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/plyer/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/plyer/default.nix
index 37eeef3ccba5..5b8bc870b838 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/plyer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/plyer/default.nix
@@ -11,26 +11,13 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sha256 = "sha256-7Icb2MVj5Uit86lRHxal6b7y9gIJ3UT2HNqpA9DYWVE=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # fix naming of the DOCUMENTS dir
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://github.com/rski/plyer/commit/99dabb2d62248fc3ea5705c2720abf71c9fc378b.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-bbnw0TxH4FGTso5dopzquDCjrjZAy+6CJauqi/nfstA=";
-    })
-    # fix handling of the ~/.config/user-dirs.dir file
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://github.com/rski/plyer/commit/f803697a1fe4fb5e9c729ee6ef1997b8d64f3ccd.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-akuh//P5puz2PwcBRXZQ4KoGk+fxi4jn2H3pTIT5M78=";
-    })
-  ];
-
   postPatch = ''
     rm -r examples
     # remove all the wifi stuff. Depends on a python wifi module that has not been updated since 2016
     find -iname "wifi*" -exec rm {} \;
     substituteInPlace plyer/__init__.py \
       --replace "wifi = Proxy('wifi', facades.Wifi)" "" \
-      --replace "'wifi'" ""
+      --replace "'wifi', " ""
     substituteInPlace plyer/facades/__init__.py \
       --replace "from plyer.facades.wifi import Wifi" ""
   '';