On Jan 10, 10:00 am, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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
I didn't get as far as the allegedly "abusive" part. I followed the link that you gave, but no matter what I clicked on, it would go looking for an obviously incorrect URL like http://www.logilab.org/#messages-control-options and just go (slowly!) to the home page ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
