dummy, underscore and unused local variables

[Ben Finney]

Tim Johnson <tim at johnsons-web.com> writes:

> If I use 
> for dummy in range(mylimit):
>     ....
> ## or
> for _ in range(mylimit):
>     ....
> I get no complaint from pychecker.	
> I would welcome comments on best practices for this issue.

I have argued in the past against overloading the name ‘_’ for this
<URL:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-January/523777.html>
since it has other, unrelated, meanings already established.

Other responses in that thread are also useful.

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Ben Finney