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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(*args, **kwargs):
 """ A helper function to encode an element. @param args: The python data to be encoded. @kwarg encoding: AMF encoding type. One of L{ENCODING_TYPES}. @return: A L{util.BufferedByteStream} object that contains the data. """

    encoding = kwargs.pop('encoding', DEFAULT_ENCODING)
    encoder = get_encoder(encoding, **kwargs)

    [encoder.writeElement(el) for el in args]

    stream = encoder.stream
    stream.seek(0)

    return stream