tokenizers/pr_1985/en/api/encode-inputs.md

# Encode Inputs

These types represent all the different kinds of input that a [Tokenizer](/docs/tokenizers/pr_1985/en/api/tokenizer#tokenizers.Tokenizer) accepts
when using `encode_batch()`.

## TextEncodeInput[[[[tokenizers.TextEncodeInput]]]]

tokenizers.TextEncodeInput

Represents a textual input for encoding. Can be either:
- A single sequence: [TextInputSequence](/docs/tokenizers/api/input-sequences#tokenizers.TextInputSequence)
- A pair of sequences:
  - A Tuple of [TextInputSequence](/docs/tokenizers/api/input-sequences#tokenizers.TextInputSequence)
  - Or a List of [TextInputSequence](/docs/tokenizers/api/input-sequences#tokenizers.TextInputSequence) of size 2

alias of `Union[str, Tuple[str, str], List[str]]`.

## PreTokenizedEncodeInput[[[[tokenizers.PreTokenizedEncodeInput]]]]

tokenizers.PreTokenizedEncodeInput

Represents a pre-tokenized input for encoding. Can be either:
- A single sequence: [PreTokenizedInputSequence](/docs/tokenizers/api/input-sequences#tokenizers.PreTokenizedInputSequence)
- A pair of sequences:
  - A Tuple of [PreTokenizedInputSequence](/docs/tokenizers/api/input-sequences#tokenizers.PreTokenizedInputSequence)
  - Or a List of [PreTokenizedInputSequence](/docs/tokenizers/api/input-sequences#tokenizers.PreTokenizedInputSequence) of size 2

alias of `Union[List[str], Tuple[str], Tuple[Union[List[str], Tuple[str]], Union[List[str], Tuple[str]]], List[Union[List[str], Tuple[str]]]]`.

## EncodeInput[[[[tokenizers.EncodeInput]]]]

tokenizers.EncodeInput

Represents all the possible types of input for encoding. Can be:
- When `is_pretokenized=False`: [TextEncodeInput](#tokenizers.TextEncodeInput)
- When `is_pretokenized=True`: [PreTokenizedEncodeInput](#tokenizers.PreTokenizedEncodeInput)

alias of `Union[str, Tuple[str, str], List[str], Tuple[str], Tuple[Union[List[str], Tuple[str]], Union[List[str], Tuple[str]]], List[Union[List[str], Tuple[str]]]]`.

The Rust API Reference is available directly on the [Docs.rs](https://docs.rs/tokenizers/latest/tokenizers/) website.

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