Re: [Python-ideas] Way to repeat other than "for _ in range(x)"

On Thursday 30 March 2017 02:48 PM, Markus Meskanen 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? 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]

Why not: d = [[0] * 5 ] * 10