John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Less clutter, and avoids yet another temp variable polluting the namespace. > Are we in danger of running out of temp variables?
There is unfortunately no way to contain the scope of a loop index to the inside of the loop. Therefore introducing more useless loop indexes creates more scorekeeping work and bug attractants. Better to get rid of them. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list