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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, inputs, attention_bias):
 """Generate continuous representation for inputs. Args: inputs: int tensor with shape [batch_size, input_length]. attention_bias: float tensor with shape [batch_size, 1, 1, input_length] Returns: float tensor with shape [batch_size, input_length, hidden_size] """

    with tf.name_scope("encode"):
      # Prepare inputs to the layer stack by adding positional encodings and
      # applying dropout.
      embedded_inputs = self.embedding_softmax_layer(inputs)
      inputs_padding = model_utils.get_padding(inputs)

      with tf.name_scope("add_pos_encoding"):
        length = tf.shape(embedded_inputs)[1]
        pos_encoding = model_utils.get_position_encoding(
            length, self.params.hidden_size)
        encoder_inputs = embedded_inputs + pos_encoding

      if self.train:
        mlperf_log.transformer_print(
            key=mlperf_log.MODEL_HP_LAYER_POSTPROCESS_DROPOUT,
            value=self.params.layer_postprocess_dropout)
        encoder_inputs = tf.nn.dropout(
            encoder_inputs, 1 - self.params.layer_postprocess_dropout)

      return self.encoder_stack(encoder_inputs, attention_bias, inputs_padding)