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# General Utilities

This page lists all of Transformers general utility functions that are found in the file `file_utils.py`.

Most of those are only useful if you are studying the general code in the library.


## Enums and namedtuples

[[autodoc]] file_utils.ExplicitEnum

[[autodoc]] file_utils.PaddingStrategy

[[autodoc]] file_utils.TensorType

## Special Decorators

[[autodoc]] file_utils.add_start_docstrings

[[autodoc]] file_utils.add_start_docstrings_to_model_forward

[[autodoc]] file_utils.add_end_docstrings

[[autodoc]] file_utils.add_code_sample_docstrings

[[autodoc]] file_utils.replace_return_docstrings

## Special Properties

[[autodoc]] file_utils.cached_property

## Other Utilities

[[autodoc]] file_utils._LazyModule