for loop without variable

[Diez B. Roggisch]

erik gartz schrieb:
> Hi. I'd like to be able to write a loop such as:
> for i in range(10):
>     pass
> but without the i variable. The reason for this is I'm using pylint
> and it complains about the unused variable i. I can achieve the above
> with more lines of code like:
> i = 0
> while (i != 10):
>     i += 1
> Is there a concise way to accomplish this without adding extra lines
> of codes? Thanks in advance for your help.

The underscore is used as "discarded" identifier. So maybe


for _ in xrange(10):
     ...


works.

Diez