diff --git a/merlin/models/tokenizers/__init__.py b/merlin/models/tokenizers/__init__.py
index 5fac9f3f54..d955878e32 100644
--- a/merlin/models/tokenizers/__init__.py
+++ b/merlin/models/tokenizers/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-from merlin.models.tokenizers.tokenizer import Tokenizer  # noqa: F401
 from merlin.models.tokenizers.sentencepiece import SentencePieceTokenizer  # noqa: F401
+from merlin.models.tokenizers.tokenizer import Tokenizer  # noqa: F401
diff --git a/merlin/models/tokenizers/sentencepiece.py b/merlin/models/tokenizers/sentencepiece.py
index d886bec916..436d1484b8 100644
--- a/merlin/models/tokenizers/sentencepiece.py
+++ b/merlin/models/tokenizers/sentencepiece.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class SentencePieceTokenizer(Tokenizer):
     [1] https://github.com/google/sentencepiece
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, *, processor: "SentencePieceTrainer") -> None:
+    def __init__(self, *, processor: "SentencePieceTrainer") -> None:  # noqa: F821
         require_sentencepiece()
 
         self.processor = processor