diff --git a/changelog/13910.bugfix.rst b/changelog/13910.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f399f95b375
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/13910.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed `UserWarning: Do not expect file_or_dir` on some earlier Python 3.12 and 3.13 point versions.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py b/src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py
index 995408800a8..8216ad8b226 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ def parse_known_and_unknown_args(
             arguments, and a list of unknown flag arguments.
         """
         strargs = [os.fspath(x) for x in args]
-        if sys.version_info < (3, 12):
+        if sys.version_info < (3, 12, 8) or (3, 13) <= sys.version_info < (3, 13, 1):
             # Older argparse have a bugged parse_known_intermixed_args.
             namespace, unknown = self.optparser.parse_known_args(strargs, namespace)
             assert namespace is not None