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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 _call(self, x, out=None):
 """Project ``x`` onto the subspace."""

        if out is None:
            out = x[self.index].copy()
        else:
            out.assign(x[self.index])
        return out