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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 forward(self, inputs, context, inference=False):
 """ Execute the decoder. :param inputs: tensor with inputs to the decoder :param context: state of encoder, encoder sequence lengths and hidden state of decoder's LSTM layers :param inference: if True stores and repackages hidden state """

        self.inference = inference

        enc_context, enc_len, hidden = context
        hidden = self.init_hidden(hidden)

        x = self.embedder(inputs)

        x, h, attn, scores = self.att_rnn(x, hidden[0], enc_context, enc_len)
        self.append_hidden(h)

        x = torch.cat((x, attn), dim=2)
        x = self.dropout(x)
        x, h = self.rnn_layers[0](x, hidden[1])
        self.append_hidden(h)

        for i in range(1, len(self.rnn_layers)):
            residual = x
            x = torch.cat((x, attn), dim=2)
            x = self.dropout(x)
            x, h = self.rnn_layers[i](x, hidden[i + 1])
            self.append_hidden(h)
            x = x + residual

        x = self.classifier(x)
        hidden = self.package_hidden()

        return x, scores, [enc_context, enc_len, hidden]