Does anyone else use this little idiom?

[BJörn Lindqvist]

> 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)


-- 
mvh Björn