diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index c352f98da82..1bca16210c5 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
 #
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@
 def make_pypi_svg(version: str) -> None:
     template: Path = CURRENT_DIR / "_static" / "pypi_template.svg"
     target: Path = CURRENT_DIR / "_static" / "pypi.svg"
-    with open(str(template), "r", encoding="utf8") as f:
+    with open(str(template), encoding="utf8") as f:
         svg: str = string.Template(f.read()).substitute(version=version)
     with open(str(target), "w", encoding="utf8") as f:
         f.write(svg)
diff --git a/scripts/diff_shades_gha_helper.py b/scripts/diff_shades_gha_helper.py
index 8cd8ba155ce..1782c76fe8d 100644
--- a/scripts/diff_shades_gha_helper.py
+++ b/scripts/diff_shades_gha_helper.py
@@ -24,17 +24,12 @@
 from base64 import b64encode
 from io import BytesIO
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any
+from typing import Any, Final, Literal
 
 import click
 import urllib3
 from packaging.version import Version
 
-if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
-    from typing import Final, Literal
-else:
-    from typing_extensions import Final, Literal
-
 COMMENT_FILE: Final = ".pr-comment.json"
 DIFF_STEP_NAME: Final = "Generate HTML diff report"
 DOCS_URL: Final = (
diff --git a/scripts/migrate-black.py b/scripts/migrate-black.py
index ff52939460c..873e2f8bb76 100755
--- a/scripts/migrate-black.py
+++ b/scripts/migrate-black.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 
 def git(*args: str) -> str:
-    return check_output(["git"] + list(args)).decode("utf8").strip()
+    return check_output(["git", *args]).decode("utf8").strip()
 
 
 def blackify(base_branch: str, black_command: str, logger: logging.Logger) -> int:
@@ -26,19 +26,19 @@ def blackify(base_branch: str, black_command: str, logger: logging.Logger) -> in
     merge_base = git("merge-base", "HEAD", base_branch)
     if not merge_base:
         logger.error(
-            "Could not find a common commit for current head and %s" % base_branch
+            f"Could not find a common commit for current head and {base_branch}"
         )
         return 1
 
     commits = git(
-        "log", "--reverse", "--pretty=format:%H", "%s~1..HEAD" % merge_base
+        "log", "--reverse", "--pretty=format:%H", f"{merge_base}~1..HEAD"
     ).split()
     for commit in commits:
-        git("checkout", commit, "-b%s-black" % commit)
+        git("checkout", commit, f"-b{commit}-black")
         check_output(black_command, shell=True)
         git("commit", "-aqm", "blackify")
 
-    git("checkout", base_branch, "-b%s-black" % current_branch)
+    git("checkout", base_branch, f"-b{current_branch}-black")
 
     for last_commit, commit in zip(commits, commits[1:]):
         allow_empty = (
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def blackify(base_branch: str, black_command: str, logger: logging.Logger) -> in
                 "diff",
                 "--binary",
                 "--find-copies",
-                "%s-black..%s-black" % (last_commit, commit),
+                f"{last_commit}-black..{commit}-black"
             ],
             stdout=PIPE,
         )
diff --git a/scripts/release.py b/scripts/release.py
index c5336506396..05df2f715c6 100755
--- a/scripts/release.py
+++ b/scripts/release.py
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
 import sys
 from datetime import datetime
 from pathlib import Path
-from subprocess import PIPE, run
-from typing import List
+from subprocess import run
 
 LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 NEW_VERSION_CHANGELOG_TEMPLATE = """\
@@ -70,9 +69,9 @@ class NoGitTagsError(Exception): ...  # noqa: E701,E761
 
 # TODO: Do better with alpha + beta releases
 # Maybe we vendor packaging library
-def get_git_tags(versions_only: bool = True) -> List[str]:
+def get_git_tags(versions_only: bool = True) -> list[str]:
     """Pull out all tags or calvers only"""
-    cp = run(["git", "tag"], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, check=True, encoding="utf8")
+    cp = run(["git", "tag"], capture_output=True, check=True, encoding="utf8")
     if not cp.stdout:
         LOG.error(f"Returned no git tags stdout: {cp.stderr}")
         raise NoGitTagsError
diff --git a/tests/optional.py b/tests/optional.py
index cbb2df7c2f8..142da844898 100644
--- a/tests/optional.py
+++ b/tests/optional.py
@@ -119,13 +119,13 @@ def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config: "Config", items: "List[Node]") -> None
         item.add_marker(skip_mark(frozenset(optional_markers_on_test)))
 
 
-@lru_cache()
+@lru_cache
 def skip_mark(tests: FrozenSet[str]) -> "MarkDecorator":
     names = ", ".join(sorted(tests))
     return pytest.mark.skip(reason=f"Marked with disabled optional tests ({names})")
 
 
-@lru_cache()
+@lru_cache
 def no(name: str) -> str:
     if name.startswith("no_"):
         return name[len("no_") :]
diff --git a/tests/test_black.py b/tests/test_black.py
index 6002bb1a5f6..85141ae9124 100644
--- a/tests/test_black.py
+++ b/tests/test_black.py
@@ -2984,7 +2984,7 @@ def test_equivalency_ast_parse_failure_includes_error(self) -> None:
 
 
 try:
-    with open(black.__file__, "r", encoding="utf-8") as _bf:
+    with open(black.__file__, encoding="utf-8") as _bf:
         black_source_lines = _bf.readlines()
 except UnicodeDecodeError:
     if not black.COMPILED:
diff --git a/tests/util.py b/tests/util.py
index d5425f1f743..46b8b925642 100644
--- a/tests/util.py
+++ b/tests/util.py
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ def _parse_minimum_version(version: str) -> Tuple[int, int]:
     return int(major), int(minor)
 
 
-@functools.lru_cache()
+@functools.lru_cache
 def get_flags_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ def parse_mode(flags_line: str) -> TestCaseArgs:
 
 
 def read_data_from_file(file_name: Path) -> Tuple[TestCaseArgs, str, str]:
-    with open(file_name, "r", encoding="utf8") as test:
+    with open(file_name, encoding="utf8") as test:
         lines = test.readlines()
     _input: List[str] = []
     _output: List[str] = []