>> 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.
>
> if a computer tells you to do something stupid, it's often better to
> find a way to tell the computer to shut up than to actually do some-
> thing stupid.
>
> (pylint's online documentation is remarkably unreadable, so I cannot
> help you with the details, but surely there's a way to disable that
> test, either globally, or for a specific region of code?).
That documentation on PyLint[1] is atrocious!
From my reading of it, at the beginning of your file, you put a
comment something like
# pylint: disable-msg=W0612
which should disable that particular message. Totally untested.
I don't know if PyLint is smart enough, but if you don't use "i",
you might use the common "throwaway" variable of "_":
for _ in xrange(10):
do_something()
in which case it _might_ recognize that it's a throwaway variable
and not warn you about it. At least that would be nice of it.
But given the abusive nature of the documenation, I'm not sure
that's the case ;)
-tkc
[1]http://www.logilab.org/card/pylintfeatures
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