Shortcut for method encode

Author: David Lucas

src/sage/coding/encoder.py

@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ def encode(self, word):
             One should use the exception :class:`EncodingError` to catch attempts
             to encode words that are outside of the message space.
 
+        One can use the following shortcut to encode a word with an encoder ``E``::
+
+            E(word)
+
         INPUT:
 
         - ``word`` -- a vector of the message space of the ``self``.
@@ -154,6 +158,9 @@ def encode(self, word):
             raise ValueError("The value to encode must be in %s" % M)
         return vector(word) * self.generator_matrix()
 
+    #Alias for encode method
+    __call__ = encode
+
     def unencode(self, c, nocheck=False):
         r"""
         Returns the message corresponding to the codeword ``c``.