diff --git a/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
index 99abf078c..271e58972 100755
--- a/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ import numpy as np
 import torch
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer  # type: ignore[import]
 
-# Use local gguf module if available.
-if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ and Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('gguf-py', 'gguf', '__init__.py').is_file():
-    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('gguf-py', 'gguf')))
+if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ:
+    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent / 'gguf-py' / 'gguf'))
 import gguf
 
 
diff --git a/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
index abbddf3fb..b9c8b4607 100755
--- a/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ import numpy as np
 import torch
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer  # type: ignore[import]
 
-# Use local gguf module if available.
-if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ and Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('gguf-py', 'gguf', '__init__.py').is_file():
-    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('gguf-py', 'gguf')))
+if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ:
+    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent / 'gguf-py' / 'gguf'))
 import gguf
 
 # ref: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/src/encoder.py
diff --git a/convert-llama-ggmlv3-to-gguf.py b/convert-llama-ggmlv3-to-gguf.py
index 43bc3f765..08ba0c490 100755
--- a/convert-llama-ggmlv3-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-llama-ggmlv3-to-gguf.py
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import numpy as np
 
 import os
-# Use local gguf module if available.
-if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ and Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('gguf-py', 'gguf', '__init__.py').is_file():
-    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('gguf-py', 'gguf')))
+if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ:
+    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent / 'gguf-py' / 'gguf'))
 import gguf
 
 # Note: Does not support GGML_QKK_64
diff --git a/convert.py b/convert.py
index 78cbb7b7a..5cc3f6e66 100755
--- a/convert.py
+++ b/convert.py
@@ -29,9 +29,8 @@ import numpy as np
 from sentencepiece import SentencePieceProcessor  # type: ignore[import]
 
 import os
-# Use local gguf module if available.
-if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ and Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('gguf-py', 'gguf', '__init__.py').is_file():
-    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('gguf-py', 'gguf')))
+if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ:
+    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent / 'gguf-py' / 'gguf'))
 import gguf
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
diff --git a/examples/train-text-from-scratch/convert-train-checkpoint-to-gguf.py b/examples/train-text-from-scratch/convert-train-checkpoint-to-gguf.py
index 46b48cb09..a527d6153 100644
--- a/examples/train-text-from-scratch/convert-train-checkpoint-to-gguf.py
+++ b/examples/train-text-from-scratch/convert-train-checkpoint-to-gguf.py
@@ -8,9 +8,8 @@ import sys
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 
-# Use local gguf module if available.
-if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ and Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('..', '..', 'gguf-py', 'gguf', '__init__.py').is_file():
-    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent.absolute().joinpath('..', '..', 'gguf-py', 'gguf')))
+if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ:
+    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent / '..' / '..' / 'gguf-py' / 'gguf'))
 import gguf
 
 # gguf constants