The current version of the package on github has an error when loading dataset
Thanks for reporting !
Which version of transformers are you using ?
It looks like it doesn't have the PreTrainedTokenizerBase class I was using transformer 2.9. And I switch to the latest transformer package. Everything works just fine!!

Thanks for helping! I should look more carefully next time. Didn't realize loading the data part requires using tokenizer.
 Yes it shouldn’t fail with older version of transformers since this is only a special feature to make caching more efficient when using transformers for tokenization.
We’ll update this.
Instead of downloading the package from pip, downloading the version from source will result in an error when loading dataset (the pip version is completely fine):

To recreate the error: 
First, installing nlp directly from source:
```
git clone https://github.com/huggingface/nlp.git
cd nlp
pip install -e .
```
Then run:
```
from nlp import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset('wikitext', 'wikitext-2-v1',split = 'train') 
```
will give error:

```
>>> dataset = load_dataset('wikitext', 'wikitext-2-v1',split = 'train')
Checking /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/datasets/84a754b488511b109e2904672d809c041008416ae74e38f9ee0c80a8dffa1383.2e21f48d63b5572d19c97e441fbb802257cf6a4c03fbc5ed8fae3d2c2273f59e.py for additional imports.
Found main folder for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/nlp/0.4.0/datasets/wikitext/wikitext.py at /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/modules/nlp_modules/datasets/wikitext
Found specific version folder for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/nlp/0.4.0/datasets/wikitext/wikitext.py at /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/modules/nlp_modules/datasets/wikitext/5de6e79516446f747fcccc09aa2614fa159053b75909594d28d262395f72d89d
Found script file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/nlp/0.4.0/datasets/wikitext/wikitext.py to /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/modules/nlp_modules/datasets/wikitext/5de6e79516446f747fcccc09aa2614fa159053b75909594d28d262395f72d89d/wikitext.py
Found dataset infos file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/nlp/0.4.0/datasets/wikitext/dataset_infos.json to /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/modules/nlp_modules/datasets/wikitext/5de6e79516446f747fcccc09aa2614fa159053b75909594d28d262395f72d89d/dataset_infos.json
Found metadata file for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/nlp/0.4.0/datasets/wikitext/wikitext.py at /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/modules/nlp_modules/datasets/wikitext/5de6e79516446f747fcccc09aa2614fa159053b75909594d28d262395f72d89d/wikitext.json
Loading Dataset Infos from /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/modules/nlp_modules/datasets/wikitext/5de6e79516446f747fcccc09aa2614fa159053b75909594d28d262395f72d89d
Overwrite dataset info from restored data version.
Loading Dataset info from /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/datasets/wikitext/wikitext-2-v1/1.0.0/5de6e79516446f747fcccc09aa2614fa159053b75909594d28d262395f72d89d
Reusing dataset wikitext (/home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/datasets/wikitext/wikitext-2-v1/1.0.0/5de6e79516446f747fcccc09aa2614fa159053b75909594d28d262395f72d89d)
Constructing Dataset for split train, from /home/zeyuy/.cache/huggingface/datasets/wikitext/wikitext-2-v1/1.0.0/5de6e79516446f747fcccc09aa2614fa159053b75909594d28d262395f72d89d
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/load.py", line 600, in load_dataset
    ds = builder_instance.as_dataset(split=split, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications)
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/builder.py", line 611, in as_dataset
    datasets = utils.map_nested(
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/utils/py_utils.py", line 216, in map_nested
    return function(data_struct)
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/builder.py", line 631, in _build_single_dataset
    ds = self._as_dataset(
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/builder.py", line 704, in _as_dataset
    return Dataset(**dataset_kwargs)
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/arrow_dataset.py", line 188, in __init__
    self._fingerprint = generate_fingerprint(self)
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/fingerprint.py", line 91, in generate_fingerprint
    hasher.update(key)
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/fingerprint.py", line 57, in update
    self.m.update(self.hash(value).encode("utf-8"))
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/fingerprint.py", line 53, in hash
    return cls.hash_default(value)
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/fingerprint.py", line 46, in hash_default
    return cls.hash_bytes(dumps(value))
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/utils/py_utils.py", line 361, in dumps
    with _no_cache_fields(obj):
  File "/home/zeyuy/miniconda3/lib/python3.8/contextlib.py", line 113, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
  File "/home/zeyuy/transformers/examples/language-modeling/nlp/src/nlp/utils/py_utils.py", line 348, in _no_cache_fields
    if isinstance(obj, tr.PreTrainedTokenizerBase) and hasattr(obj, "cache") and isinstance(obj.cache, dict):
AttributeError: module 'transformers' has no attribute 'PreTrainedTokenizerBase'

```


