Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)?

[fl]

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:03:05 PM UTC-5, John Gordon wrote:
> In <bad9ac66-38aa-4445-a486-6df0e9c7752c at googlegroups.com> fl <@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > correctly. Could you see something useful with variable 'sz'?
> 
> 'sz' is fewer characters than '(n_iter,)', which may make your code easier
> to read.
> 
> The np.zeros() function explicitly accepts an 'int or sequence of ints',
> so you don't specifically need a sequence.  Is the same true for the
> 'size' keyword argument of np.random.normal()?
> 
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Hi, I get the following for the third parameter of np.random.normal():
size : int or tuple of ints, optional

I still don't see the necessity of 'sz'. Thanks,