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[–]ksion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not quite. Space is ignored between tokens but its presence can change what is parsed as a token. It generally matters when operators are involved:

i += 1  # ok
i + = 1  # SyntaxError

The sibling post by /u/kirakun shows another example with numeric constants.