diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tables/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tables/default.nix
index 7dc18cefc481..bab23c58c0d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tables/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tables/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   lib,
+  stdenv,
   fetchPypi,
   buildPythonPackage,
   pythonOlder,
@@ -23,14 +24,14 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "tables";
-  version = "3.10.1";
+  version = "3.10.2";
   format = "setuptools";
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.8";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    hash = "sha256-SqB6xzS5wDe66vRK7GTskCrSR/V4EbWfMMTjHTHxJs8=";
+    hash = "sha256-JUSBKnGG+tuoMdbdNOtJzNeI1qg/TkwrQxuDW2eWyRA=";
   };
 
   build-system = [
@@ -59,15 +60,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   # When doing `make distclean`, ignore docs
   postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace Makefile --replace "src doc" "src"
     # Force test suite to error when unittest runner fails
     substituteInPlace tables/tests/test_suite.py \
-      --replace "return 0" "assert result.wasSuccessful(); return 0" \
-      --replace "return 1" "assert result.wasSuccessful(); return 1"
-    substituteInPlace requirements.txt \
-      --replace "cython>=0.29.21" "" \
-      --replace "blosc2~=2.0.0" "blosc2"
-  '';
+      --replace-fail "return 0" "assert result.wasSuccessful(); return 0" \
+      --replace-fail "return 1" "assert result.wasSuccessful(); return 1"
+    substituteInPlace tables/__init__.py \
+      --replace-fail 'find_library("blosc2")' '"${lib.getLib c-blosc}/lib/libblosc${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary}"'  '';
 
   # Regenerate C code with Cython
   preBuild = ''