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This works:

for i in range(0, 3):
    print "hi"

This doesn't work:

for range(0, 3):
    print "hi"

but I don't need the 'i' for anything at all. Is there a way to write a 'for' statement without the 'i' or a different character which assumes the same role?

( Typically, it would be something like 

for i in range(0, someReturnValue())
    someFunction()

but the question is generalizable to my first examples.)

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As mentioned elsewhere, this is an interesting and possibly faster alternative:

import itertools

for _ in itertools.repeat(None, 3):
    print 'hi'
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If you don't need a lopping variable(index), the best practice is to use _ (which is, really, just another variable):

for _ in range(0, 3):
    print "hi"

Also see:

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Oh hey, there was a question already - didn't see that (And I did look!)
Additional question: The scope of the ' _ ' is for that loop, presumably - what if I need to do nested loops, will using ' _ ' in the internal loop mess it up for the external loop?
You shouldn't use the same variable name inside nested loops, take a look: stackoverflow.com/questions/13255455/…. Turn on your imagination in that case :)
for loopOne in range(0, 3) for loopTwo in range(0, 5)

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