From 16352b07782e2c49bbabd1d8ba8d950022eb60a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anastasiia Pnevskaia <anastasiia.pnevskaia@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:10:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Error fix.

---
 src/bindings/python/src/pyopenvino/frontend/manager.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bindings/python/src/pyopenvino/frontend/manager.cpp b/src/bindings/python/src/pyopenvino/frontend/manager.cpp
index 99058d9152661e..408bb224f7679b 100644
--- a/src/bindings/python/src/pyopenvino/frontend/manager.cpp
+++ b/src/bindings/python/src/pyopenvino/frontend/manager.cpp
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ void regclass_frontend_FrontEndManager(py::module m) {
     fem.def(
         "load_by_model",
         [](const std::shared_ptr<ov::frontend::FrontEndManager>& fem, const py::object& model) {
-            if (py::isinstance(model, py::module_::import("pathlib").attr("Path"))) {
+            if (py::isinstance(model, py::module_::import("pathlib").attr("Path")) || py::isinstance<py::str>(model)) {
                 std::string model_path = Common::utils::convert_path_to_string(model);
 
             // Fix unicode path