print and softspace in python

In python, whenever you use >>>print statement it will append a newline by default. If you don't want newline to be appended, you got use a comma at the end (>>>print 10,)
When, you have a list of characters and want them to be printed together a string using a for loop, there was observation that no matter what there was space coming between the characters. No split or  join methods helped.
>>>list1=['a','b','c']
>>>for e in list1:
           print e,
a b c
>>># Without whitespace it will look like.
>>>print "abc"
abc

The language reference says that print is designed to output a space before any object. And some search goes to find and that is controlled by softspace attribute of sys.stdout.
Way to print without leading space is using sys.stdout.write()

>>>import sys
>>>for e in list1:
          sys.stdout.write(e)
abc

Reference manual says:
A space is written before each object is (converted and) written, unless the output system believes it is positioned at the beginning of a line. This is the case (1) when no characters have yet been written to standard output, (2) when the last character written to standard output is "\n", or (3) when the last write operation on standard output was not a print statement. (In some cases it may be functional to write an empty string to standard output for this reason.)
Not getting the last part as how you will write  a empty string and use print  not appending  blank space in a single line