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As per the discussion on the issue tracker, we want to check for a trailing , here, and if so, also append end=' ' to request the Python 3 equivalent of Python 2's soft-space behaviour.

(That will also impact the working memory allocation - the simplest option would be to always allocate enough space to handle the suggest_end_arg case, since the working string will be null-terminated anyway)