diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_unicode b/Lib/test/output/test_unicode
index 82ed240..2930d64 100644
--- a/Lib/test/output/test_unicode
+++ b/Lib/test/output/test_unicode
@@ -6,3 +6,16 @@
 Testing builtin codecs... done.
 Testing standard mapping codecs... 0-127... 128-255... done.
 Testing Unicode string concatenation... done.
+Testing Unicode printing... abc
+abc def
+abc def
+abc def
+abc
+
+abc
+abc
+def
+
+def
+
+done.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index eff11cf..b859fbb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -644,3 +644,16 @@
 verify((u"abc" u"def" "ghi") == u"abcdefghi")
 verify(("abc" "def" u"ghi") == u"abcdefghi")
 print 'done.'
+
+print 'Testing Unicode printing...',
+print u'abc'
+print u'abc', u'def'
+print u'abc', 'def'
+print 'abc', u'def'
+print u'abc\n'
+print u'abc\n',
+print u'abc\n',
+print u'def\n'
+print u'def\n'
+print 'done.'
+
diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index b707734..21ee3db 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -1349,14 +1349,24 @@
 				err = PyFile_WriteString(" ", w);
 			if (err == 0)
 				err = PyFile_WriteObject(v, w, Py_PRINT_RAW);
-			if (err == 0 && PyString_Check(v)) {
+			if (err == 0) {
 				/* XXX move into writeobject() ? */
-				char *s = PyString_AsString(v);
-				int len = PyString_Size(v);
+			    if (PyString_Check(v)) {
+				char *s = PyString_AS_STRING(v);
+				int len = PyString_GET_SIZE(v);
 				if (len > 0 &&
 				    isspace(Py_CHARMASK(s[len-1])) &&
 				    s[len-1] != ' ')
 					PyFile_SoftSpace(w, 0);
+			    } 
+			    else if (PyUnicode_Check(v)) {
+				Py_UNICODE *s = PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(v);
+				int len = PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(v);
+				if (len > 0 &&
+				    Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE(s[len-1]) &&
+				    s[len-1] != ' ')
+				    PyFile_SoftSpace(w, 0);
+			    }
 			}
 			Py_DECREF(v);
 			Py_XDECREF(stream);