are final newlines appended if output lacks it?

[Bengt Richter]

On Sun, 04 May 2003 02:21:23 GMT, sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin) wrote:

>On Sun, 04 May 2003 02:01:48 GMT, sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin)
>wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 04 May 2003 08:53:39 +0800, Dan Jacobson
>><jidanni at dman.ddts.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Doing help() print explains how the blank got in here,
>>>$ python -c "print 'wow',;print 'pow',"|od -c
>>>0000000   w   o   w       p   o   w  \n
>>>0000010
>>>But not the newline. Why?
>>>-- 
>>>http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780
>>
>>Doing help() print also explains how the newline got in there:
>>"""
>> A "\n" character is written at the end, unless the print statement
>>ends
>> with a comma. This is the only action if the statement contains just
>>the
>> keyword print.
>>"""
>
>
>derrrrr ..... my brain was in neutral. Dan's question/problem is quite
>valid, not explained by the documentation, and I have been able to
>reproduce it on Windows 2000 with Python 2.2.2.
>
>Doing this give the same effect as what Dan got, except that of course
>with Windows the offending extra is '\r\n' instead of just '\n':
>
>python -c "print 'wow',;print 'pow'," >powwow.txt
>
>Doing this:
>
>python -c "import sys;sys.stdout.write('abc');sys.stdout.write('xyz')"
>>abcxyz.txt
>
>produces no newline.  Looks like there's  an undocumented "feature" of
>the Python's print statement, nothing to do with the C stdio library
>or the OS.

I wonder if this is related to the softspace bug that I posted about some time ago

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=ah2887%24bpu%240%40216.39.172.122

Regards,
Bengt Richter