Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

[John Salerno]

I know it's popular and very handy, but I'm curious if there are purists
out there who think that using something like:

for x in range(10):
#do something 10 times

is unPythonic. The reason I ask is because the structure of the for loop
seems to be for iterating through a sequence. It seems somewhat
artificial to use the for loop to do something a certain number of
times, like above.

Anyone out there refuse to use it this way, or is it just impossible to
avoid?

[Dave Parker]

Your point about for-loops was applicable not only to Python, but to
many other programming languages. So in response, I've added two new
for-loop variations to Flaming Thunder.

The two new variations are for-forever-do and for-expression-times-do.
For-forever allows you to explicitly create infinite loops, and for-
expression-times allows you to do something a specific number of times
without having to declare a looping variable if you don't need one.
Examples:

Write "Fa". For 8 times do write "-la".

For forever do
(
Write "Do you know the definition of insanity? ".
Read response.
).

On May 10, 8:19*pm, John Salerno <[e-mail]:

I know it's popular and very handy, but I'm curious if there are purists
out there who think that using something like:

for x in range(10):
* * #do something 10 times

isunPythonic. The reason I ask is because the structure of the for loop
seems to be for iterating through a sequence. It seems somewhat
artificial to use the for loop to do something a certain number of
times, like above.

Anyone out there refuse to use it this way, or is it just impossible to
avoid?