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DeepSeek Flash 1017 skips Jinja. Read its prompts with Python

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If you're used to a chat_template.jinja file, you know the idea: turn a list of chat messages into prompt text before tokenization. DeepSeek Flash 1017 doesn't ship one. Instead there's a 38 KB Python file called encoding.py [1]. 🕵️ That sounds annoying. It's actually a gift. You can run that file…

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  1. 2026-10-20 07:23 · DEV Community — AI
    DeepSeek Flash 1017 skips Jinja. Read its prompts with Python

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