proposed PEP: iterator splicing

[Paul Rubin]

John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:
> > Less clutter, and avoids yet another temp variable polluting the namespace.
>      Are we in danger of running out of temp variables?

There is unfortunately no way to contain the scope of a loop index to the
inside of the loop.  Therefore introducing more useless loop indexes creates
more scorekeeping work and bug attractants.  Better to get rid of them.