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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 set_dict_item(dct, name_string, set_to):
 """Sets dictionary item identified by name_string to set_to. name_string is the indentifier generated using flatten_dict. Maintains the type of the orginal object in dct and tries to convert set_to to that type. """

    key_strings = str(name_string).split('-->')
    d = dct
    for ks in key_strings[:-1]:
        d = d[ks]
    item_type = type(d[key_strings[-1]])
    d[key_strings[-1]] = item_type(set_to)