Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

[Paul Rubin]

John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:
> for x in range(10):
>     #do something 10 times
> 
> is unPythonic. The reason I ask is because the structure of the for loop
> seems to be for iterating through a sequence. It seems somewhat
> artificial to use the for loop to do something a certain number of
> times, like above.

It is pretty natural in imperative-style code.  The one thing I'd do
differently is use xrange instead of range, to avoid creating a
10-element list in memory before starting the loop.