diff --git a/cm-mlops/script/get-preprocessed-dataset-imagenet/preprocess.py b/cm-mlops/script/get-preprocessed-dataset-imagenet/preprocess.py
index 1b9178324b..43e434c073 100644
--- a/cm-mlops/script/get-preprocessed-dataset-imagenet/preprocess.py
+++ b/cm-mlops/script/get-preprocessed-dataset-imagenet/preprocess.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 
-if os.environ.get('CM_IMAGENET_QUANTIZED', False) == "yes":
+if os.environ.get('CM_IMAGENET_QUANTIZED', '') == "yes":
     import generic_preprocess
     generic_preprocess.preprocess()
 else: