diff --git a/test/test_http_proxy.py b/test/test_http_proxy.py
index 2435c878a..e903ff8be 100644
--- a/test/test_http_proxy.py
+++ b/test/test_http_proxy.py
@@ -331,10 +331,6 @@ def test_http_connect_auth(self, handler, ctx):
                 assert proxy_info['proxy'] == server_address
                 assert 'Proxy-Authorization' in proxy_info['headers']
 
-    @pytest.mark.skip_handler(
-        'Requests',
-        'bug in urllib3 causes unclosed socket: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3374',
-    )
     def test_http_connect_bad_auth(self, handler, ctx):
         with ctx.http_server(HTTPConnectProxyHandler, username='test', password='test') as server_address:
             with handler(verify=False, proxies={ctx.REQUEST_PROTO: f'http://test:bad@{server_address}'}) as rh:
diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index 65f28db36..42dc7f937 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -219,11 +219,8 @@ def test_sanitize_ids(self):
         self.assertEqual(sanitize_filename('_BD_eEpuzXw', is_id=True), '_BD_eEpuzXw')
         self.assertEqual(sanitize_filename('N0Y__7-UOdI', is_id=True), 'N0Y__7-UOdI')
 
+    @unittest.mock.patch('sys.platform', 'win32')
     def test_sanitize_path(self):
-        with unittest.mock.patch('sys.platform', 'win32'):
-            self._test_sanitize_path()
-
-    def _test_sanitize_path(self):
         self.assertEqual(sanitize_path('abc'), 'abc')
         self.assertEqual(sanitize_path('abc/def'), 'abc\\def')
         self.assertEqual(sanitize_path('abc\\def'), 'abc\\def')
@@ -254,10 +251,8 @@ def _test_sanitize_path(self):
 
         # Check with nt._path_normpath if available
         try:
-            import nt
-
-            nt_path_normpath = getattr(nt, '_path_normpath', None)
-        except Exception:
+            from nt import _path_normpath as nt_path_normpath
+        except ImportError:
             nt_path_normpath = None
 
         for test, expected in [
diff --git a/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py b/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py
index 4093c238c..0140acaa3 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py
@@ -3247,7 +3247,7 @@ def _match_one(filter_part, dct, incomplete):
             op = lambda attr, value: not unnegated_op(attr, value)
         else:
             op = unnegated_op
-        comparison_value = m['quotedstrval'] or m['strval'] or m['intval']
+        comparison_value = m['quotedstrval'] or m['strval']
         if m['quote']:
             comparison_value = comparison_value.replace(r'\{}'.format(m['quote']), m['quote'])
         actual_value = dct.get(m['key'])