What does `print` interprete as whitespace?

Question

What is the complete list of whitespace characters that print interprets as such?

I need to truly understand how the print statement works in Python. So far so weird, but this is one detail that I can't figure out:

In Python's reference manual chapter 6.6 it says:

... when the last character written to standard output is a whitespace character except ' ', ...

I know that the most common whitespace for this case is '\\n', but I need to know the others.

Answer 1

In CPython, it is probably all characters for which isspace() returns true , namely:

• \\f (form feed)
• \\n (linefeed)
• \\r (carriage return)
• \\t (horizontal tab)
• \\v (vertical tab)