From bbee269a1434acbbe41c390296aa272a892a8210 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Csaba Kecskemeti <csaba.kecskemeti@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:22:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] model card yaml tab->2xspace

---
 gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py b/gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py
index e807f434689de..67efedbdbc564 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ def load_model_card(model_path: Optional[Path] = None) -> dict[str, Any]:
         # Quick hack to fix the Norway problem
         # https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
         yaml_content = yaml_content.replace("- no\n", "- \"no\"\n")
+        # yaml should use 2 spaces insted of tab
+        # this issue has came up with the Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model card
+        #    (I've also sent a pr tp fix the modelcard too)
+        yaml_content = yaml_content.replace("\t", "  ")
 
         if yaml_content:
             data = yaml.safe_load(yaml_content)