generates fingerprints of the input. Either provide `str` to compute fingerprint directly from your string or `fpath` to compute fingerprint from the text of the file. Make sure to have your text decoded in `utf-8` format if you pass the input string.

        Args:
            str (Optional(str)): string whose fingerprint is to be computed.
            fpath (Optional(str)): absolute path of the text file whose fingerprint is to be computed.

        Returns:
            List(int): fingerprints of the input.

        Raises:
            FingerprintException: If the input string do not meet the requirements of parameters provided for fingerprinting.

def generate(self, str=None, fpath=None):
        """generates fingerprints of the input. Either provide `str` to compute fingerprint directly from your string or `fpath` to compute fingerprint from the text of the file. Make sure to have your text decoded in `utf-8` format if you pass the input string.

        Args:
            str (Optional(str)): string whose fingerprint is to be computed.
            fpath (Optional(str)): absolute path of the text file whose fingerprint is to be computed.

        Returns:
            List(int): fingerprints of the input.

        Raises:
            FingerprintException: If the input string do not meet the requirements of parameters provided for fingerprinting.
        """
        self.prepare_storage()
        self.str = self.load_file(fpath) if fpath else self.sanitize(str)
        self.validate_config()
        self.generate_kgrams()
        self.hash_kgrams()
        self.generate_fingerprints()
        return self.fingerprints