diff --git a/fix-312.patch b/fix-312.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2edf88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-312.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+Index: smartypants.py-2.0.1/tests/test_cli.py
+===================================================================
+--- smartypants.py-2.0.1.orig/tests/test_cli.py
++++ smartypants.py-2.0.1/tests/test_cli.py
+@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class TestCLI(unittest.TestCase):
+         E = '“foobar”'
+ 
+         output = self._p([sys.executable, CLI_SCRIPT], T)
+-        self.assertEquals(output, E)
++        self.assertEqual(output, E)
+ 
+     def test_pipe_attr(self):
+ 
+@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ class TestCLI(unittest.TestCase):
+ 
+         E = T
+         output = self._p([sys.executable, CLI_SCRIPT, '--attr', '0'], T)
+-        self.assertEquals(output, E)
++        self.assertEqual(output, E)
+ 
+         E = """"foo" “bar”"""
+         output = self._p([sys.executable, CLI_SCRIPT, '--attr', 'b'], T)
+-        self.assertEquals(output, E)
++        self.assertEqual(output, E)
+ 
+     def test_skipped_elements(self):
+ 
+@@ -55,19 +55,19 @@ class TestCLI(unittest.TestCase):
+ 
+         E = '<a>&#8220;foo&#8221;</a> <b>&#8220;bar&#8221;</b>'
+         output = self._p([sys.executable, CLI_SCRIPT], T)
+-        self.assertEquals(output, E)
++        self.assertEqual(output, E)
+ 
+         E = '<a>"foo"</a> <b>&#8220;bar&#8221;</b>'
+         output = self._p([sys.executable, CLI_SCRIPT, '--skip', 'a'], T)
+-        self.assertEquals(output, E)
++        self.assertEqual(output, E)
+ 
+         E = '<a>&#8220;foo&#8221;</a> <b>"bar"</b>'
+         output = self._p([sys.executable, CLI_SCRIPT, '--skip', 'b'], T)
+-        self.assertEquals(output, E)
++        self.assertEqual(output, E)
+ 
+         E = T
+         output = self._p([sys.executable, CLI_SCRIPT, '--skip', 'a,b'], T)
+-        self.assertEquals(output, E)
++        self.assertEqual(output, E)
+ 
+     def test_file(self):
+ 
+@@ -82,4 +82,4 @@ class TestCLI(unittest.TestCase):
+             output = self._p([sys.executable, CLI_SCRIPT, F])
+         finally:
+             os.remove(F)
+-        self.assertEquals(output, E)
++        self.assertEqual(output, E)
+Index: smartypants.py-2.0.1/smartypants.py
+===================================================================
+--- smartypants.py-2.0.1.orig/smartypants.py
++++ smartypants.py-2.0.1/smartypants.py
+@@ -268,13 +268,13 @@ def smartypants(text, attr=None):
+                 if do_quotes:
+                     if t == "'":
+                         # Special case: single-character ' token
+-                        if re.match("\S", prev_token_last_char):
++                        if re.match(r"\S", prev_token_last_char):
+                             t = "&#8217;"
+                         else:
+                             t = "&#8216;"
+                     elif t == '"':
+                         # Special case: single-character " token
+-                        if re.match("\S", prev_token_last_char):
++                        if re.match(r"\S", prev_token_last_char):
+                             t = "&#8221;"
+                         else:
+                             t = "&#8220;"
+Index: smartypants.py-2.0.1/tests/test.py
+===================================================================
+--- smartypants.py-2.0.1.orig/tests/test.py
++++ smartypants.py-2.0.1/tests/test.py
+@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class SmartyPantsTestCase(unittest.TestC
+ 
+         T = sp(TEXT)
+         E = '&#8220;foo&#8221; -- bar'
+-        self.assertEquals(T, E)
++        self.assertEqual(T, E)
+ 
+         attr = Attr.q | Attr.d
+         Attr.default = attr
+@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class SmartyPantsTestCase(unittest.TestC
+ 
+         T = sp(TEXT)
+         E = '&#8220;foo&#8221; &#8212; bar'
+-        self.assertEquals(T, E)
++        self.assertEqual(T, E)
+ 
+     def test_dates(self):
+ 
diff --git a/python-smartypants.changes b/python-smartypants.changes
index e3b3bfa..5746e53 100644
--- a/python-smartypants.changes
+++ b/python-smartypants.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep 25 08:24:56 UTC 2023 - Ondřej Súkup <mimi.vx@gmail.com>
+
+- add fix-312.patch to fix python3.12 build  
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Apr 21 12:34:12 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-smartypants.spec b/python-smartypants.spec
index adccc63..bb8a81c 100644
--- a/python-smartypants.spec
+++ b/python-smartypants.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-smartypants
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 #
 
 
-%{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 %{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
 Name:           python-smartypants
 Version:        2.0.1
@@ -26,7 +25,8 @@ License:        BSD-3-Clause
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/leohemsted/smartypants.py
 Source:         https://github.com/leohemsted/smartypants.py/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/smartypants-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch1:         use-sys-executable.patch
+Patch0:         use-sys-executable.patch
+Patch1:         fix-312.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module docutils}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pygments}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
@@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ which translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into smart
 typographic punctuation HTML entities.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n smartypants.py-%{version}
-%patch1 -p1
+%autosetup -p1 -n smartypants.py-%{version}
 
 %build
 %python_build
@@ -70,6 +69,8 @@ typographic punctuation HTML entities.
 %license COPYING
 %doc README.rst docs/*.rst
 %python_alternative %{_bindir}/smartypants
-%{python_sitelib}/*
+%{python_sitelib}/smartypants.py
+%{python_sitelib}/smartypants-%{version}*-info
+%pycache_only %{python_sitelib}/__pycache__/*
 
 %changelog