llama.cpp/gguf-py
Daniel Bevenius c8ac02fa1b
requirements : update transformers to 5.5.1 (#21617)
* requirements : update transformers to 5.5.0

This commit updates the transformers dependency to version 5.5.0.

The motivation for this is that transformers 5.5.0 includes support for
Gemma4 and is required to be able to convert Gemma4 models. This is also
causing issues for user of gguf-my-repo.

Refs: https://huggingface.co/spaces/ggml-org/gguf-my-repo/discussions/202

* fix huggingface_hub version

* set version of transformers to 5.5.0

* convert : add ty ignore directives to convert_hf_to_gguf.py

This commit adds `ty: ignore` directives to transformers tokenizers
field/methods to avoid type check errors. There might be better ways to
handle this and perhaps this can be done in a follow up commit.

The motivation for this is that it looks like in transformers 5.5.0
AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained can return generic tokenizer types or None
and the type checker now produces an error when the conversion script
accesses field like tokenizer.vocab.

* convert : add ty ignore to suppress type check errors

* convert : remove incorrect type ignores

* convert : fix remaining python checks

I was running a newer version of ty locally but I've switched to
version 0.0.26 which is what CI uses and I was then able to reproduce
the errors. Sorry about the noise.

* update transformers version to 5.5.1
2026-04-09 12:36:29 +02:00
..
examples Refactor gguf scripts to improve metadata handling (#11909) 2025-02-26 08:04:48 -05:00
gguf requirements : update transformers to 5.5.1 (#21617) 2026-04-09 12:36:29 +02:00
tests ggml : add NVFP4 quantization type support (#19769) 2026-03-11 21:02:54 +01:00
LICENSE gguf : make gguf pip-installable 2023-08-25 09:26:05 +03:00
README.md gguf-py : GGUF Editor GUI - Python + Qt6 (#12930) 2025-04-18 20:30:41 +02:00
pyproject.toml gguf-py : dump version to 0.18.0 (#19950) 2026-02-27 11:02:53 +01:00

README.md

gguf

This is a Python package for writing binary files in the GGUF (GGML Universal File) format.

See convert_hf_to_gguf.py as an example for its usage.

Installation

pip install gguf

Optionally, you can install gguf with the extra 'gui' to enable the visual GGUF editor.

pip install gguf[gui]

API Examples/Simple Tools

examples/writer.py — Generates example.gguf in the current directory to demonstrate generating a GGUF file. Note that this file cannot be used as a model.

examples/reader.py — Extracts and displays key-value pairs and tensor details from a GGUF file in a readable format.

gguf/scripts/gguf_dump.py — Dumps a GGUF file's metadata to the console.

gguf/scripts/gguf_set_metadata.py — Allows changing simple metadata values in a GGUF file by key.

gguf/scripts/gguf_convert_endian.py — Allows converting the endianness of GGUF files.

gguf/scripts/gguf_new_metadata.py — Copies a GGUF file with added/modified/removed metadata values.

gguf/scripts/gguf_editor_gui.py — Allows for viewing, editing, adding, or removing metadata values within a GGUF file as well as viewing its tensors with a Qt interface.

Development

Maintainers who participate in development of this package are advised to install it in editable mode:

cd /path/to/llama.cpp/gguf-py

pip install --editable .

Note: This may require to upgrade your Pip installation, with a message saying that editable installation currently requires setup.py. In this case, upgrade Pip to the latest:

pip install --upgrade pip

Automatic publishing with CI

There's a GitHub workflow to make a release automatically upon creation of tags in a specified format.

  1. Bump the version in pyproject.toml.
  2. Create a tag named gguf-vx.x.x where x.x.x is the semantic version number.
git tag -a gguf-v1.0.0 -m "Version 1.0 release"
  1. Push the tags.
git push origin --tags

Manual publishing

If you want to publish the package manually for any reason, you need to have twine and build installed:

pip install build twine

Then, follow these steps to release a new version:

  1. Bump the version in pyproject.toml.
  2. Build the package:
python -m build
  1. Upload the generated distribution archives:
python -m twine upload dist/*

Run Unit Tests

From root of this repository you can run this command to run all the unit tests

python -m unittest discover ./gguf-py -v

TODO

  • Include conversion scripts as command line entry points in this package.