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Python multi line dictionary format and whitespace

I saw this questions on stack for how best to format a dictionary over multiple lines http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6388187/what-is-the-proper-way-to-format-a-multi-line-dict-in-python

However (I've been learning JS recently so my python syntax is a bit confused atm), I'm not sure how this works in terms of whitespace. Doesn't a new line signal the end of a statement in python so how does this work?

Thanks

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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I prefer them with the } at the same indentation as the first letter in the dictionary's variable name but, as they said on SO, they're all three syntactically correct.

Newlines often signal the end of a line of instruction, yes, but they don't have to. Consider the following:

a = (1, 2
    4, 8, 16,
    9, 12, 21)

long_string = '''oaueouo
oueuoeu
oueuoeuoeuoeu
'''

Both are perfectly valid.

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Thanks Kenneth