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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 rate(s=switchpoint, e=early_mean, l=late_mean):
    ''' Concatenate Poisson means '''
    out = empty(len(disasters_array))
    out[:s] = e
    out[s:] = l
    return out