Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

[Graham Breed]

George Sakkis wrote:

> If you push this logic too far, you should del every name immediately
> after the last statement it is used in the scope. I would generally
> find less readable some code spread with del every few lines, micro-
> managing the effective scope of each name. YMMV.

Yes, but ... how about

for i in range(10):
     del i
     do stuff

?

It makes it clear you aren't using the index and ensures you 
get a run-time error if you clobbered an existing variable.


             Graham