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

[Peter Hansen]

Matteo Dell'Amico wrote:

> Peter Hansen wrote:
>> 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. :-)

In that case they would be related, but is this any more than
supposition on your part?  Is the use of _ as a throw-away in
for loops, and perhaps even in the interpreter as "last result",
definitely descended from its wildcard usage in functional
languages (or, at least, Ocaml)?

-Peter