🤗 Tokenizers is tested on Python 3.5+.
You should install 🤗 Tokenizers in a virtual environment. If you’re unfamiliar with Python virtual environments, check out the user guide. Create a virtual environment with the version of Python you’re going to use and activate it.
🤗 Tokenizers can be installed using pip as follows:
pip install tokenizers
To use this method, you need to have the Rust language installed. You can follow the official guide for more information.
If you are using a unix based OS, the installation should be as simple as running:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Or you can easiy update it with the following command:
rustup update
Once rust is installed, we can start retrieving the sources for 🤗 Tokenizers:
git clone https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers
Then we go into the python bindings folder:
cd tokenizers/bindings/python
At this point you should have your virtual environment already
activated. In order to compile 🤗 Tokenizers, you need to install the
Python package setuptools_rust
:
pip install setuptools_rust
Then you can have 🤗 Tokenizers compiled and installed in your virtual environment with the following command:
python setup.py install