in 332496 20080204 102153 "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?BJ=F6rn_Lindqvist?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In Python, the direct translation of this is a for loop. When the >> index doesn't matter to me, I tend to write it as: >> >> for _ in xrange (1,n): >> some code >> >> An alternative way of indicating that you don't care about the loop >> index would be >> >> for dummy in xrange (1,n): >> some code > >I usually use _ when I know that i18n doesn't matter. dummy is just to >long when unpacking sequences: > >for dummy, email, dummy, dummy in persons: >sendmail(email) > >for _, email, _, _ in persons: >sendmail(email)
Rexx's method is the way to do it : "do 50" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
