print with no newline

[Peter Otten]

Paul Watson wrote:

> I thought that using a comma at the end of a print statement would
> suppress
> printing of a newline.  Am I misunderstanding this feature?  How can I use
> print and not have a newline appended at the end?

I thought that, too. It turns out that Python writes an additional newline
on exit if the softspace flag is set. So

$ python -c "import sys; print 'here',; sys.stdout.softspace = False" >
tmp.txt
$ od -c tmp.txt
0000000   h   e   r   e
0000004

is a viable if ugly workaround. 

Peter