pythonic way to do something N times without an index variable?

Question

Every day I love python more and more.

Today, I was writing some code like:

for i in xrange(N):
    do_something()

I had to do som

Answer 1

Use the _ variable, as I learned when I asked this question, for example:

# A long way to do integer exponentiation
num = 2
power = 3
product = 1
for _ in xrange(power):
    product *= num
print product