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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def encode(self, s):
 """Encodes text into a list of integers."""

    s = tf.compat.as_text(s)
    tokens = self._tokenizer.tokenize(s)
    tokens = _prepare_tokens_for_encode(tokens)
    ids = []
    for token in tokens:
      ids.extend(self._token_to_ids(token))
    return text_encoder.pad_incr(ids)