diff --git a/unsloth/tokenizer_utils.py b/unsloth/tokenizer_utils.py
index 54f0e66c71..78494f8efa 100644
--- a/unsloth/tokenizer_utils.py
+++ b/unsloth/tokenizer_utils.py
@@ -914,6 +914,7 @@ def patch_sft_trainer_tokenizer():
     try:
         sft_trainer = eval(f"trl.trainer.sft_trainer.SFTTrainer")
     except:
+        return
     all_imports = dir(trl.trainer.sft_trainer)
 
     for function_name, replacer in (