are final newlines appended if output lacks it?

[Peter Hansen]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> 
> Tim Peters wrote:
> >Regardless, it would be incompatible behavior, so won't be changed without
> >an important use case.  

> Nothing compelling, just the example above. It's only compelling in rare
> aesthetically charged moods ;-) It's not like I can't work around it ;-)

Well, looks like that closes the discussion then.  ;-)