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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):
 """Return the constant vector or assign it to ``out``."""

        if out is None:
            return self.range.element(copy(self.constant))
        else:
            out.assign(self.constant)