Curly brackets or brackets at all aren't mentioned by name in the article - is that your interpretation of the first code example? IMO, that example is there t

Curly brackets or brackets at all aren't mentioned by name in the article - is that your interpretation of the first code example? IMO, that example is there to show that there's less required boilerplate required in python compared to java when doing the same thing. And, in particular, none of that boilerplate really matters to what you want to do - print hello world - emphasizing the point of python being simple.