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Concern

In this lesson, we show our set initialization method as follows:

def __init__(self, enumerable=[]):
        self.dictionary={}
        for value in enumerable:
            dictionary.put(value) = True

However, this code throws an error from the dictionary.put(value) = True part - SyntaxError: cannot assign to function call. The goal here is to assign a new key / give a value to an existing key, correct? I tried using the put method like this in a replit, and it also threw an error.

I switched to this:

def __init__(self, enumerable=[]):
        self.dictionary={}
        for value in enumerable:
            self.dictionary[value] = True

And am no longer getting the error. Is this proper syntax, or should the .put() method work?

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