are final newlines appended if output lacks it?

[Dan Jacobson]

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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