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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 _get_sorting_key_values(self, array1, array2):
 """return the sorting key values as a series"""


        concat_arrays = numpy.concatenate([array1, array2])
        unique_values = numpy.unique(concat_arrays)

        return numpy.sort(unique_values)