On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:31:09PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:

>> Okay.  I didn't see anything at the URL you sent saying that if a CR was
>> the last thing printed on a line, the softspace handling would be
>> overridden and no newline printed.
>
> You are right, their explanation doesn't document that, it was observed 
> behaviour I discovered on my own, but it seemed logical to me in the 
> context of their explanation.  Reading through the python source code 
> itself, it also seems to make sense if you look at the main interpreter 
> loop from lines 1530-1560 in the python 2.4.5 source drop; though at this 
> point, I'm far-off into undocumented territory (not that python documents 
> the at exit softspace behaviour either that I can find).
>
> Hence why I'm still offering to attempt to use sys.stdout.write() instead.  

No, it's not necessary, but if you could summarize the discussion in the
bug, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
Danek
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