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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def encode_safely(self, data):
 """Encode the data. """

        
        encoder = self.base_encoder
        result = settings.null

        try:
            result = encoder(pickle.dumps(data))
        except:
            warnings.warn("Data could not be serialized.", RuntimeWarning)
        return result