On 30 March 2017 at 19:18, Markus Meskanen <markusmeska...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Pythonistas, > > yet again today I ended up writing: > > d = [[0] * 5 for _ in range(10)] > > And wondered, why don't we have a way to repeat other than looping over > range() and using a dummy variable?
Because it's relatively rare to not use the loop variable for anything (even if it's just a debug message), and in the cases where you genuinely don't use it, a standard idiom can be applied (using a single or double underscore as a dummy variable), rather than all future users of the language needing to learn a special case syntax. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
