From 9d216017be9cb416f41c4a6be71af69f44849dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arthur <48595927+ArthurZucker@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:46:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [`SeamlessM4TTokenizer`]  Safe import (#28026)

safe import
---
 .../seamless_m4t/tokenization_seamless_m4t_fast.py     | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/transformers/models/seamless_m4t/tokenization_seamless_m4t_fast.py b/src/transformers/models/seamless_m4t/tokenization_seamless_m4t_fast.py
index 8ca03ac6747bb7..b7bedfb38a6295 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/seamless_m4t/tokenization_seamless_m4t_fast.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/seamless_m4t/tokenization_seamless_m4t_fast.py
@@ -25,11 +25,13 @@
     TextInput,
 )
 from ...tokenization_utils_fast import PreTrainedTokenizerFast
-from ...utils import PaddingStrategy, logging
-from .tokenization_seamless_m4t import (
-    SeamlessM4TTokenizer,
-)
+from ...utils import PaddingStrategy, is_sentencepiece_available, logging
+
 
+if is_sentencepiece_available():
+    from .tokenization_seamless_m4t import SeamlessM4TTokenizer
+else:
+    SeamlessM4TTokenizer = None
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)