diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8d67b6544fda74f5f98b32a77a9b679572009227..07f03ee9c436eadea051ddab9ec485a9ab2d4800 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             "colorcet",
             # Avoid:
             # polars 1.7.0: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/issues/18719
-            "polars >= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0, != 1.7.0",
+            "polars >= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0, < 1.7.0",
             # Pandas >= 1.0.0 has support for new nullable dtypes
             # Pandas 1.2.0 has broken barplots:
             # https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/38947