diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PortAudio/PortAudio-19.7.0-foss-2023a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PortAudio/PortAudio-19.7.0-foss-2023a.eb
index 15d7ae00a51..001f977a015 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PortAudio/PortAudio-19.7.0-foss-2023a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PortAudio/PortAudio-19.7.0-foss-2023a.eb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ sanity_check_paths = {
 }
 
 sanity_check_commands = [
-    'python -c "import pyaudio; pyaudio.get_portaudio_version_text(); pyaudio.__version__"'
+    'python -c "import pyaudio; pyaudio.get_portaudio_version_text()"'
 ]
 
 modextrapaths = {'PYTHONPATH': 'lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages'}
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyAV/PyAV-11.0.0-GCCcore-12.3.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyAV/PyAV-11.0.0-GCCcore-12.3.0.eb
index 529b6bfdc45..05acd2727d2 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyAV/PyAV-11.0.0-GCCcore-12.3.0.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyAV/PyAV-11.0.0-GCCcore-12.3.0.eb
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ sanity_pip_check = True
 
 exts_list = [
     ('av', version, {
-        'installopts': "--no-binary av",
+        'installopts': '--no-binary av',
         'checksums': ['48223f000a252070f8e700ff634bb7fb3aa1b7bc7e450373029fbdd6f369ac31'],
     }),
 ]
 
-moduleclass = "vis"
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/w/whisper-ctranslate2/whisper-ctranslate2-0.5.2-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/w/whisper-ctranslate2/whisper-ctranslate2-0.5.2-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1.eb
index 8d87a797962..6d8af5e3649 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/w/whisper-ctranslate2/whisper-ctranslate2-0.5.2-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/w/whisper-ctranslate2/whisper-ctranslate2-0.5.2-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1.eb
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ exts_list = [
 ]
 
 sanity_check_paths = {
-    'files': [f'bin/{name}'],
+    'files': ['bin/%(name)s'],
     'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages'],
 }
 
-sanity_check_commands = [f"{name} --help"]
+sanity_check_commands = ['%(name)s --help']
 
 moduleclass = 'ai'