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    Please, next time, when you post code anywhere, invest some minimal formatting effort to make it readable. But FWIW: "set" can be replaced by "initializes", or "assigns [a certain value to]". And "the commented statement that sets the path variable" refers to the first line in the code block section above. Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 6:05
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    You mean that "set" is kind of synonym to 'initialize'? Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 6:41
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    I’m voting to close this question because it asks about the meaning of a word used in a sentence rather than a keyword in a programming language. Questions like this would be a better fit for the English Language Learners community. Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 13:42
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    It just means to change the value of a variable to something, to "set its value". It's a verb, the opposite of get. (Later on, you'll learn about "getters" and "setters"). In case you're confusing it with the mathematical notion of a set (a collection of elements) - it has nothing to do with that; those are two different terms that happen to be written the same. Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 14:49
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    @GregBurghardt: I am here with Flater, who gave a good reason why not to close this question. Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 14:56