diff --git a/bindings/python/src/tokenizer.rs b/bindings/python/src/tokenizer.rs
index 4acb7f9de..d1726daca 100644
--- a/bindings/python/src/tokenizer.rs
+++ b/bindings/python/src/tokenizer.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ use pyo3::exceptions;
 use pyo3::prelude::*;
 use pyo3::types::*;
 
+use tk::tokenizer::{
+    PaddingDirection, PaddingParams, PaddingStrategy, TruncationParams, TruncationStrategy,
+};
+
 use super::decoders::Decoder;
 use super::encoding::Encoding;
 use super::error::{PyError, ToPyResult};
@@ -14,10 +18,6 @@ use super::processors::PostProcessor;
 use super::trainers::Trainer;
 use super::utils::Container;
 
-use tk::tokenizer::{
-    PaddingDirection, PaddingParams, PaddingStrategy, TruncationParams, TruncationStrategy,
-};
-
 #[pyclass(dict)]
 pub struct Tokenizer {
     tokenizer: tk::tokenizer::Tokenizer,
@@ -190,33 +190,23 @@ impl Tokenizer {
     }
 
     #[args(kwargs = "**")]
-    fn decode(&self, ids: Vec<u32>, kwargs: Option<&PyDict>) -> PyResult<String> {
-        let mut skip_special_tokens = true;
-
-        if let Some(kwargs) = kwargs {
-            if let Some(skip) = kwargs.get_item("skip_special_tokens") {
-                skip_special_tokens = skip.extract()?;
-            }
-        }
-
-        ToPyResult(self.tokenizer.decode(ids, skip_special_tokens)).into()
+    fn decode(&self, ids: Vec<u32>, skip_special_tokens: Option<bool>) -> PyResult<String> {
+        ToPyResult(self.tokenizer.decode(
+            ids,
+            skip_special_tokens.unwrap_or(true),
+        )).into()
     }
 
     #[args(kwargs = "**")]
     fn decode_batch(
         &self,
         sentences: Vec<Vec<u32>>,
-        kwargs: Option<&PyDict>,
+        skip_special_tokens: Option<bool>,
     ) -> PyResult<Vec<String>> {
-        let mut skip_special_tokens = true;
-
-        if let Some(kwargs) = kwargs {
-            if let Some(skip) = kwargs.get_item("skip_special_tokens") {
-                skip_special_tokens = skip.extract()?;
-            }
-        }
-
-        ToPyResult(self.tokenizer.decode_batch(sentences, skip_special_tokens)).into()
+        ToPyResult(self.tokenizer.decode_batch(
+            sentences,
+            skip_special_tokens.unwrap_or(true),
+        )).into()
     }
 
     fn token_to_id(&self, token: &str) -> Option<u32> {