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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_param(self, param, value):
        '''Set a parameter in this configuration set.'''
        self.data[param] = value
        self._object.configuration_data = utils.dict_to_nvlist(self.data)