what does 'for _ in range()' mean?

[Matteo Dell'Amico]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Phil said Ocaml allowed multiple _ in tuple assignments but
> that Python did not, while I attempted to correct that assertion by
> showing that it in fact did.
> 
> David and you were discussing a case involving function languages,
> which Python is not, where the use of multiple _ (which now has
> syntactical meaning, as opposed to being just an "ignore this" by
> convention) is allowed.
> 
> Sounds to me like the two discussions are unrelated.

More or less so. It was only a discussion on the etimology of the 
underscore convention. :-)

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Ciao,
Matteo