From 8ad4bdfa06022fbefefec19d15de2bd7bcd31a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ross Wightman <rwightman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:18:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Allow ntuple to be used with string values

---
 timm/models/layers/helpers.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/timm/models/layers/helpers.py b/timm/models/layers/helpers.py
index cc54ca7f..4a10ca0c 100644
--- a/timm/models/layers/helpers.py
+++ b/timm/models/layers/helpers.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import collections.abc
 # From PyTorch internals
 def _ntuple(n):
     def parse(x):
-        if isinstance(x, collections.abc.Iterable):
+        if isinstance(x, collections.abc.Iterable) and not isinstance(x, str):
             return x
         return tuple(repeat(x, n))
     return parse