diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/conf.py b/docs/cudf/source/conf.py
index d30e9142596..0fde1cd4740 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/conf.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 #
 # This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
 # Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
-language = None
+language = "en"
 
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_parquet.py b/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_parquet.py
index 440559812cc..1916417f306 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_parquet.py
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_parquet.py
@@ -2552,9 +2552,9 @@ def test_parquet_reader_zstd_compression(datadir):
         pytest.mark.xfail(reason="zstd support is not enabled")
 
 
-def test_read_parquet_multiple_files(datadir):
-    df_1_path = datadir / "df_1.parquet"
-    df_2_path = datadir / "df_2.parquet"
+def test_read_parquet_multiple_files(tmpdir):
+    df_1_path = tmpdir / "df_1.parquet"
+    df_2_path = tmpdir / "df_2.parquet"
     df_1 = cudf.DataFrame({"id": range(100), "a": [1] * 100})
     df_1.to_parquet(df_1_path)