are final newlines appended if output lacks it?

[John Machin]

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?
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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.
"""