are final newlines appended if output lacks it?

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
> Regardless, it would be incompatible behavior, so won't be
> changed without an important use case.

[Bengt Richter]
> 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 ;-)

[Peter Hansen]
> Well, looks like that closes the discussion then.  ;-)

It was closed anyway <wink>.  I think it did a fine job of illustrating why
no form of file.softspace is likely to exist in Python 3, though.

magic-only-works-so-long-as-you-don't-question-it-ly y'rs  - tim