diff --git a/deploy/utils/predictor.py b/deploy/utils/predictor.py
index 04f9eab7a8..f99b407b85 100644
--- a/deploy/utils/predictor.py
+++ b/deploy/utils/predictor.py
@@ -55,11 +55,9 @@ def create_paddle_predictor(self, args, inference_model_dir=None):
             ) is False, "int8 mode is not supported for fp32 model inference, please set use_int8 as False during inference."
 
         # NOTE: paddle support to PIR mode after v2.6.0
-        pd_version = 0
-        for v in paddle.__version__.split(".")[:3]:
-            pd_version = 10 * pd_version + eval(v)
-
-        if pd_version == 0 or pd_version >= 260:
+        major_v, minor_v, _ = paddle.__version__.split(".")[:3]
+        major_v, minor_v = int(major_v), int(minor_v)
+        if (major_v == 0 and minor_v == 0) or (major_v >= 3):
             config = Config(inference_model_dir, model_prefix)
         else:
             model_file = os.path.join(inference_model_dir, f"{model_prefix}.pdmodel")
diff --git a/paddleclas.py b/paddleclas.py
index 27e0b5c708..9255819acc 100644
--- a/paddleclas.py
+++ b/paddleclas.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 __all__ = ["PaddleClas"]
 
-BASE_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~/.paddleclas/")
+BASE_DIR = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".paddleclas"))
 BASE_INFERENCE_MODEL_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "inference_model")
 BASE_IMAGES_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "images")
 IMN_MODEL_BASE_DOWNLOAD_URL = "https://paddle-imagenet-models-name.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph/inference/{}_infer.tar"