Update app.py

app.py

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 import os
+# ✅ MUST be before importing transformers
+os.environ["TRANSFORMERS_CACHE"] = "/tmp/huggingface"
+
 from fastapi import FastAPI, UploadFile, File
 from transformers import AutoModelForImageClassification, AutoImageProcessor
 from PIL import Image
@@ -6,9 +9,6 @@ import torch.nn.functional as F
 import torch
 import io
 
-# ✅ Fix: set writable cache directory
-os.environ["TRANSFORMERS_CACHE"] = "/tmp/huggingface"
-
 app = FastAPI()
 
 model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained("prithivMLmods/Gender-Classifier-Mini")