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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(self, entity):
 """ Encodes the data, creating a JSON structure from an instance from the domain model. :param entity: the instance to encode :return: a JSON structure created from the received data """

        encoded = self._dict_encoder.encode(entity)

        if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
            result = json.dumps(encoded, ensure_ascii=False,
                                default=_iso_handler, encoding='latin1')
        else:
            # For Python 3
            result = json.dumps(encoded, ensure_ascii=False,
                                default=_iso_handler)

        return result