diff --git a/bindings/python/tests/bindings/test_processors.py b/bindings/python/tests/bindings/test_processors.py
index 0cefec6..b7bcb5e 100644
--- a/bindings/python/tests/bindings/test_processors.py
+++ b/bindings/python/tests/bindings/test_processors.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class TestBertProcessing:
         tokenizer.add_tokens(["my", "name", "is", "john", "pair"])
         tokenizer.post_processor = BertProcessing(("[SEP]", 0), ("[CLS]", 1))
 
-        output = tokenizer.encode("my name", "pair")
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("my name", "pair"))
         assert output.tokens == ["[CLS]", "my", "name", "[SEP]", "pair", "[SEP]"]
         assert output.ids == [1, 2, 3, 0, 6, 0]
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class TestRobertaProcessing:
         tokenizer.add_tokens(["my", "name", "is", "john", "pair"])
         tokenizer.post_processor = RobertaProcessing(("</s>", 1), ("<s>", 0))
 
-        output = tokenizer.encode("my name", "pair")
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("my name", "pair"))
         assert output.tokens == ["<s>", "my", "name", "</s>", "</s>", "pair", "</s>"]
         assert output.ids == [0, 2, 3, 1, 1, 6, 1]
 
diff --git a/bindings/python/tests/bindings/test_tokenizer.py b/bindings/python/tests/bindings/test_tokenizer.py
index 6c8f18c..0dd271a 100644
--- a/bindings/python/tests/bindings/test_tokenizer.py
+++ b/bindings/python/tests/bindings/test_tokenizer.py
@@ -102,9 +102,13 @@ class TestTokenizer:
         assert type(output.overflowing) == list
 
         # Can encode a pair of sequences
-        output = tokenizer.encode("my name is john", "pair")
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("my name is john", "pair"))
         assert output.tokens == ["my", "name", "is", "john", "pair"]
 
+        # Can encode a single pre-tokenized sequence
+        output = tokenizer.encode(["my", "name", "is", "john"])
+        assert output.tokens == ["my", "name", "is", "john"]
+
         # Can encode a batch with both a single sequence and a pair of sequences
         output = tokenizer.encode_batch(["my name is john", ("my name is john", "pair")])
         assert len(output) == 2
@@ -136,7 +140,7 @@ class TestTokenizer:
         assert output.tokens == ["my", "name"]
 
         # Can truncate pair sequences as well
-        output = tokenizer.encode("my name is john", "pair")
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("my name is john", "pair"))
         assert output.tokens == ["my", "pair"]
 
     def test_padding(self):
@@ -156,7 +160,7 @@ class TestTokenizer:
         tokenizer.enable_padding(max_length=4)
         output = tokenizer.encode("my name")
         assert output.tokens == ["my", "name", "[PAD]", "[PAD]"]
-        output = tokenizer.encode("my name", "pair")
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("my name", "pair"))
         assert output.tokens == ["my", "name", "pair", "[PAD]"]
 
     def test_decode(self):
diff --git a/bindings/python/tests/implementations/test_bert_wordpiece.py b/bindings/python/tests/implementations/test_bert_wordpiece.py
index fb241cd..91a7e78 100644
--- a/bindings/python/tests/implementations/test_bert_wordpiece.py
+++ b/bindings/python/tests/implementations/test_bert_wordpiece.py
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ class TestBertWordPieceBPE:
         tokenizer = BertWordPieceTokenizer(bert_files["vocab"])
 
         # Encode with special tokens by default
-        output = tokenizer.encode("My name is John", "pair")
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("My name is John", "pair"))
         assert output.ids == [101, 2026, 2171, 2003, 2198, 102, 3940, 102]
         assert output.tokens == ["[CLS]", "my", "name", "is", "john", "[SEP]", "pair", "[SEP]"]
         assert output.offsets == [(0, 0), (0, 2), (3, 7), (8, 10), (11, 15), (0, 0), (0, 4), (0, 0)]
         assert output.type_ids == [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1]
 
         # Can encode without the special tokens
-        output = tokenizer.encode("My name is John", "pair", add_special_tokens=False)
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("My name is John", "pair"), add_special_tokens=False)
         assert output.ids == [2026, 2171, 2003, 2198, 3940]
         assert output.tokens == ["my", "name", "is", "john", "pair"]
         assert output.offsets == [(0, 2), (3, 7), (8, 10), (11, 15), (0, 4)]
diff --git a/bindings/python/tests/implementations/test_char_bpe.py b/bindings/python/tests/implementations/test_char_bpe.py
index 66b45f4..8a3bd3a 100644
--- a/bindings/python/tests/implementations/test_char_bpe.py
+++ b/bindings/python/tests/implementations/test_char_bpe.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class TestBertWordPieceBPE:
     def test_basic_encode(self, openai_files):
         tokenizer = CharBPETokenizer(openai_files["vocab"], openai_files["merges"])
 
-        output = tokenizer.encode("My name is John", "pair")
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("My name is John", "pair"))
         assert output.ids == [0, 253, 1362, 544, 0, 7, 12662, 2688]
         assert output.tokens == [
             "<unk>",
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class TestBertWordPieceBPE:
 
     def test_lowercase(self, openai_files):
         tokenizer = CharBPETokenizer(openai_files["vocab"], openai_files["merges"], lowercase=True)
-        output = tokenizer.encode("My name is John", "pair", add_special_tokens=False)
+        output = tokenizer.encode(("My name is John", "pair"), add_special_tokens=False)
         assert output.ids == [547, 1362, 544, 2476, 2688]
         assert output.tokens == ["my</w>", "name</w>", "is</w>", "john</w>", "pair</w>"]
         assert output.offsets == [(0, 2), (3, 7), (8, 10), (11, 15), (0, 4)]