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? This seems like a rather common thing to do, and while the benefit doesn't seem much, something like this would be much prettier and more pythonic than using underscore variable: d = [[0] * 5 repeat_for 10] And could obviously be used outside of comprehensions too: repeat_for 3: print('Attempting to reconnect...') if reconnect(): break else: print('Unable to reconnect :(') sys.exit(0) I chose to use repeat_for instead of repeat because it's way less likely to be used as a variable name, but obviously other names could be used like loop_for or repeat_times etc. Thoughts?