def __init__()

in src/encoder.py [0:0]


    def __init__(self, encoder, bpe_merges, errors='replace'):
        self.encoder = encoder
        self.decoder = {v:k for k,v in self.encoder.items()}
        self.errors = errors # how to handle errors in decoding
        self.byte_encoder = bytes_to_unicode()
        self.byte_decoder = {v:k for k, v in self.byte_encoder.items()}
        self.bpe_ranks = dict(zip(bpe_merges, range(len(bpe_merges))))
        self.cache = {}

        # Should haved added re.IGNORECASE so BPE merges can happen for capitalized versions of contractions
        self.pat = re.compile(r"""'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d| ?\p{L}+| ?\p{N}+| ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+""")