diff --git a/src/cpp/src/llm_pipeline.cpp b/src/cpp/src/llm_pipeline.cpp
index 6611b8d0c..ce3d22365 100644
--- a/src/cpp/src/llm_pipeline.cpp
+++ b/src/cpp/src/llm_pipeline.cpp
@@ -86,13 +86,13 @@ std::string from_tokenizer_json_if_exists(const std::string& path) {
 std::filesystem::path with_openvino_tokenizers(const std::filesystem::path& path) {
     // There can be more than one . but std::filesystem::path::extension() would return the last one.
 #ifdef _WIN32
-    constexpr tokenizers = "openvino_tokenizers.dll";
+    constexpr char tokenizers[] = "openvino_tokenizers.dll";
 #elif __linux__
-    constexpr tokenizers = "openvino_tokenizers.so";
+    constexpr char tokenizers[] = "openvino_tokenizers.so";
 #elif __APPLE__
-    constexpr tokenizers = "openvino_tokenizers.dylib";
+    constexpr char tokenizers[] = "openvino_tokenizers.dylib";
 #endif
-    return path.parent_path() / ("openvino_tokenizers" + ext);
+    return path.parent_path() / tokenizers;
 }
 
 std::string get_ov_genai_library_path() {
diff --git a/src/python/py_generate_pipeline.cpp b/src/python/py_generate_pipeline.cpp
index c6a78ae12..a36e21808 100644
--- a/src/python/py_generate_pipeline.cpp
+++ b/src/python/py_generate_pipeline.cpp
@@ -100,13 +100,13 @@ std::string call_with_config(LLMPipeline& pipe, const std::string& text, const G
 std::filesystem::path with_openvino_tokenizers(const std::filesystem::path& path) {
     // There can be more than one . but std::filesystem::path::extension() would return the last one.
 #ifdef _WIN32
-    constexpr tokenizers = "openvino_tokenizers.dll";
+    constexpr char tokenizers[] = "openvino_tokenizers.dll";
 #elif __linux__
-    constexpr tokenizers = "openvino_tokenizers.so";
+    constexpr char tokenizers[] = "openvino_tokenizers.so";
 #elif __APPLE__
-    constexpr tokenizers = "openvino_tokenizers.dylib";
+    constexpr char tokenizers[] = "openvino_tokenizers.dylib";
 #endif
-    return path.parent_path() / ("openvino_tokenizers" + ext);
+    return path.parent_path() / tokenizers;
 }
 
 std::string get_ov_genai_bindings_path() {
diff --git a/tests/python_tests/test_generate_api.py b/tests/python_tests/test_generate_api.py
index 5ac977f1b..eaaf0ddc9 100644
--- a/tests/python_tests/test_generate_api.py
+++ b/tests/python_tests/test_generate_api.py
@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ def stop_criteria_map():
     # (dict(num_beam_groups=2, num_beams=8, num_return_sequences=8, max_new_tokens=20, diversity_penalty=1.0), 'The Sun is yellow because'),
     # (dict(num_beam_groups=2, num_beams=8, num_return_sequences=8, max_new_tokens=20, diversity_penalty=1.5), 'The Sun is yellow because'),
 ]
+
+
+def test_short():
+    import openvino_genai
+    openvino_genai.LLMPipeline(r'C:\Users\vzlobin\r\g\TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0', 'CPU', {})
+    openvino_genai.LLMPipeline(r'C:\Users\vzlobin\r\g\TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0', 'CPU', {}, '')
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("generation_config,prompt", test_cases)
 def test_greedy_decoding(model_fixture, generation_config, prompt):
     run_hf_ov_genai_comparison(model_fixture, generation_config, prompt)