diff --git a/bindings/python/src/decoders.rs b/bindings/python/src/decoders.rs
index 4dc762b7..8881bc78 100644
--- a/bindings/python/src/decoders.rs
+++ b/bindings/python/src/decoders.rs
@@ -43,18 +43,24 @@ pub struct WordPiece {}
 #[pymethods]
 impl WordPiece {
     #[new]
-    #[args(kwargs="**")]
+    #[args(kwargs = "**")]
     fn new(obj: &PyRawObject, kwargs: Option<&PyDict>) -> PyResult<()> {
         let mut prefix = String::from("##");
+        let mut cleanup = true;
 
         if let Some(kwargs) = kwargs {
             if let Some(p) = kwargs.get_item("prefix") {
                 prefix = p.extract()?;
             }
+            if let Some(c) = kwargs.get_item("cleanup") {
+                cleanup = c.extract()?;
+            }
         }
 
         Ok(obj.init(Decoder {
-            decoder: Container::Owned(Box::new(tk::decoders::wordpiece::WordPiece::new(prefix))),
+            decoder: Container::Owned(Box::new(tk::decoders::wordpiece::WordPiece::new(
+                prefix, cleanup,
+            ))),
         }))
     }
 }
diff --git a/bindings/python/tokenizers/decoders/__init__.pyi b/bindings/python/tokenizers/decoders/__init__.pyi
index e101aa25..706f306c 100644
--- a/bindings/python/tokenizers/decoders/__init__.pyi
+++ b/bindings/python/tokenizers/decoders/__init__.pyi
@@ -22,12 +22,15 @@ class WordPiece(Decoder):
     """ WordPiece Decoder """
 
     @staticmethod
-    def __init__(self, prefix: str = "##") -> Decoder:
+    def __init__(self, prefix: str = "##", cleanup: bool = True) -> Decoder:
         """ Instantiate a new WordPiece Decoder
 
         Args:
             prefix: str:
                 The prefix to use for subwords that are not a beginning-of-word
+            cleanup: bool:
+                Whether to cleanup some tokenization artifacts. Mainly spaces before punctuation,
+                and some abbreviated english forms.
         """
         pass