How can I add items to an empty set in python

I have the following procedure:

def myProc(invIndex, keyWord):
    D={}
    for i in range(len(keyWord)):
        if keyWord[i] in invIndex.keys():
                    D.update(invIndex[query[i]])
    return D

But I am getting the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in <module>
TypeError: cannot convert dictionary update sequence element #0 to a sequence

I do not get any error if D contains elements. But I need D to be empty at the beginning.