Is it true that I can't use curly braces in Python?

You can try to add support for braces using a future import statement, but it's not yet supported, so you'll get a syntax error:

>>> from __future__ import braces
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance

Correct for code blocks. However, you do define dictionaries in Python using curly braces:

a_dict = {
    'key': 'value',
}

Ahhhhhh.

Yes. Curly braces are not used. Instead, you use the : symbol to introduce new blocks, like so:

if True:
    do_something()
    something_else()
else:
    something()

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