Correction in softspace behavior description.
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 276a0da..e295552 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -386,9 +386,10 @@
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 :keyword:`print` statement. (In some cases it may be
-functional to write an empty string to standard output for this reason.)
+standard output is a whitespace character except ``' '``, or (3) when the last
+write operation on standard output was not a :keyword:`print` statement.
+(In some cases it may be functional to write an empty string to standard output
+for this reason.)
.. note::