diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/send_and_wait_for_test_bag.py b/.buildkite/scripts/send_and_wait_for_test_bag.py
index 0964d0f3a8..3d12efdc2c 100755
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/send_and_wait_for_test_bag.py
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/send_and_wait_for_test_bag.py
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ def pprint_time(seconds):
         print(f"status = {status.ljust(9)} (t = {pprint_time(elapsed_time)})")
 
         if status == "succeeded":
-            print(f"🎉 Test bag successful!")
+            print("🎉 Test bag successful!")
             break
         elif status == "failed":
-            print(f"😱 Test bag failed!")
+            print("😱 Test bag failed!")
             sys.exit(1)
         else:
             time.sleep(5)
diff --git a/monitoring/digital_production_report/digital_production_report.py b/monitoring/digital_production_report/digital_production_report.py
index 83ab919b0a..bb1ac1ba1c 100755
--- a/monitoring/digital_production_report/digital_production_report.py
+++ b/monitoring/digital_production_report/digital_production_report.py
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ def run_query(*, es_host, es_user, es_pass, query_type, query):
     es_url = f"https://{es_host}:9243/storage_files/_{query_type}"
 
     auth_string = f"{es_user}:{es_pass}".encode("ascii")
-    auth_header = f"Basic " + base64.b64encode(auth_string).decode("ascii")
+    auth_header = "Basic " + base64.b64encode(auth_string).decode("ascii")
 
     print(f"Making query {json.dumps(query)}")
     req = urllib.request.Request(
diff --git a/scripts/_azure.py b/scripts/_azure.py
index 78e22ab811..ec53ded7fd 100644
--- a/scripts/_azure.py
+++ b/scripts/_azure.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def _create_sas_uris(connection_string, *, expiry, ip):
         container_name = container["name"]
 
         if expiry is None:
-            raise TypeError(f"expiry cannot be None!")
+            raise TypeError("expiry cannot be None!")
 
         for mode, allow_write in (("read_only", False), ("read_write", True)):
             permission = ContainerSasPermissions(
diff --git a/scripts/migrations/2020-08-update_migration_created_date.py b/scripts/migrations/2020-08-update_migration_created_date.py
index b449940d62..f5a6cea129 100755
--- a/scripts/migrations/2020-08-update_migration_created_date.py
+++ b/scripts/migrations/2020-08-update_migration_created_date.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def get_backfill_item(id, version):
             Key={"id": id, "version": version}
         )["Item"]
     except KeyError:
-        record_error(id, version, f"Cannot find backfill storage manifest!!!!")
+        record_error(id, version, "Cannot find backfill storage manifest!!!!")
 
 
 def is_expected_diff(id, version, diff):
diff --git a/scripts/migrations/2020-10-archivematica_bags_migration.py b/scripts/migrations/2020-10-archivematica_bags_migration.py
index 4424d1cf21..42519ba5e1 100755
--- a/scripts/migrations/2020-10-archivematica_bags_migration.py
+++ b/scripts/migrations/2020-10-archivematica_bags_migration.py
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ def migrate(self, version, space, external_identifier):
         self._write_fetch_file(
             working_folder=working_folder, bucket=bucket, path=path, files=payload_files
         )
-        logger.log(f"Wrote fetch.txt")
+        logger.log("Wrote fetch.txt")
 
         # Get required files from bag
         self._get_bagit_files_from_s3(
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ def migrate(self, version, space, external_identifier):
             version=version,
             tagmanifest_files=tagmanifest_files,
         )
-        logger.log(f"Got BagIt files from S3")
+        logger.log("Got BagIt files from S3")
 
         # Update bag-info.txt
         archivematica_uuid = self._get_archivematica_uuid(files=payload_files)
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ def migrate(self, version, space, external_identifier):
     os.makedirs(target_folder, exist_ok=True)
 
     logger = SimpleLog(
-        log_location=os.path.join(target_folder, f"error.log"),
+        log_location=os.path.join(target_folder, "error.log"),
         init_msg=f"Starting migration of {documents_to_process} bags",
     )
 
diff --git a/scripts/migrations/2020-10-miro-migration/s3.py b/scripts/migrations/2020-10-miro-migration/s3.py
index c84ea88126..d0586df3e5 100644
--- a/scripts/migrations/2020-10-miro-migration/s3.py
+++ b/scripts/migrations/2020-10-miro-migration/s3.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def get_s3_object(*, bucket, key):
     """
     Retrieves the contents of an object from S3.
     """
-    out_path = os.path.join(f"_cache", bucket, key)
+    out_path = os.path.join("_cache", bucket, key)
     os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(out_path), exist_ok=True)
 
     try: