How can I get around declaring an unused variable in a for loop?

Question

If I have a list comprehension (for example) like this:

[\'\' for x in myList]

Effectively making a new list that has an empty string for e

Answer 1

No. As the Zen puts it: Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. The special case being loops not using the items of the thing being iterated and the rule being that there's a "target" to unpack to.

You can, however, use _ as variable name, which is usually understood as "intentionally unused" (even PyLint etc. knows and respect this).