diff --git a/tests/tests_tqdm.py b/tests/tests_tqdm.py
index dd33cc502..414eebe71 100644
--- a/tests/tests_tqdm.py
+++ b/tests/tests_tqdm.py
@@ -1722,8 +1722,14 @@ def test_file_redirection():
     with closing(StringIO()) as our_file:
         # Redirect stdout to tqdm.write()
         with std_out_err_redirect_tqdm(tqdm_file=our_file):
-            for _ in trange(3):
+            with tqdm(total=3) as pbar:
                 print("Such fun")
+                pbar.update(1)
+                print("Such", "fun")
+                pbar.update(1)
+                print("Such ", end="")
+                print("fun")
+                pbar.update(1)
         res = our_file.getvalue()
         assert res.count("Such fun\n") == 3
         assert "0/3" in res
diff --git a/tqdm/contrib/__init__.py b/tqdm/contrib/__init__.py
index f9dfa1713..f0b80c2a1 100644
--- a/tqdm/contrib/__init__.py
+++ b/tqdm/contrib/__init__.py
@@ -16,10 +16,19 @@
 
 class DummyTqdmFile(ObjectWrapper):
     """Dummy file-like that will write to tqdm"""
+    def __init__(self, wrapped):
+        super(DummyTqdmFile, self).__init__(wrapped)
+        self._buf = []
+
     def write(self, x, nolock=False):
-        # Avoid print() second call (useless \n)
-        if len(x.rstrip()) > 0:
-            tqdm.write(x, file=self._wrapped, nolock=nolock)
+        nl = "\n" if isinstance(x, str) else b"\n"
+        pre, sep, post = x.rpartition(nl)
+        if sep:
+            tqdm.write(type(nl)().join(self._buf) + pre,
+                       file=self._wrapped, nolock=nolock)
+            self._buf = [post]
+        else:
+            self._buf.append(x)
 
 
 def builtin_iterable(func):