AttributeError with T5Tokenizer
I am trying to use **T5Tokenizer** and **t5-base** model to fine-tune on **SQuAD** dataset. But each time, when I run the tokenizer code I get errors (e.g, `'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'/'batch_encode_plus'/'encode_plus'`).

Example code
```
tokenizer = T5Tokenizer.from_pretrained('t5-base')
ids_neg = tokenizer.encode('negative </s>')
ids_pos = tokenizer.encode('positive </s>')
```
I get the following error:
> AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-19-f34cd55ac673> in <module>()
> ----> 1 ids_neg = tokenizer.encode('negative </s>')
>       2 ids_pos = tokenizer.encode('positive </s>')
>       3 len(ids_neg), len(ids_pos)
> 
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'
I think the errors could be more explicit here, here I think it comes from the fact that you don't have SentencePiece installed. Can you try to install it and let me know if it fixes your issue?<|||||>Hi @LysandreJik. I had the same issue, with sentencepiece installed. I also notice that my previous notebooks with T5Tokenizer and t5-base don't also work as well.

Here's my error:

```
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-42-63aa129d4b0c> in <module>()
----> 1 dataset = ParaphraseDataset(tokenizer, 'data', 'dev', 256)
      2 print("Val dataset: ",len(dataset))
      3 
      4 data = dataset[61]
      5 print(tokenizer.decode(data['source_ids']))

1 frames
<ipython-input-39-2fa4af2cad5a> in __init__(self, tokenizer, data_dir, type_path, max_len)
     12         self.targets = []
     13 
---> 14         self._build()
     15 
     16     def __len__(self):

<ipython-input-39-2fa4af2cad5a> in _build(self)
     34 
     35             # tokenize inputs
---> 36             tokenized_inputs = self.tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(
     37                 [input_], max_length=self.max_len, pad_to_max_length=True, return_tensors="pt", truncation='longest_first'
     38             )

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'batch_encode_plus'
```

It seems to me that T5Tokenizer isn't loading the T5-base tokenizer properly<|||||>Hmmm I'm pretty sure this only happens when you don't have sentencepiece installed. Do you mind pasting your environment info as well as `pip list`? If you're running on colab, can you make sure you restart the runtime before trying again? Thank you for your patience.<|||||>Here's mine (sorry for the long scroll!) (PS: I just found that downgrading the version of the transformers package solves the issue):

```
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```<|||||>Thank you for sharing! In previous packages, we needed `sentencepiece` so it was installed automatically. It's not anymore, with I think was the issue here. Will look into it further.<|||||>> I think the errors could be more explicit here, here I think it comes from the fact that you don't have SentencePiece installed. Can you try to install it and let me know if it fixes your issue?

Yes, I have already installed **SentencePiece**.<|||||>It eventually worked for me with the following re-installation:

```
!pip install transformers==2.9.0 
!pip install pytorch_lightning==0.7.5
```

Maybe the error was due to the specific version.<|||||>You need sentencepiece:  **_!pip install sentencepiece_**

However, if you are using colab notebook you have to **_restart the runtime for it to work._** after installing sentencepiece_<|||||>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. If you think this still needs to be addressed please comment on this thread.

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