Pythonic way to ignore for loop control variable

Question

A Python program I\'m writing is to read a set number of lines from the top of a file, and the program needs to preserve this header for future use. Currently, I\'m doing s

Answer 1

I'm not sure what the Pylint rules are, but you could use the '_' throwaway variable name.

header = ''
header_len = 4
for _ in range(1, header_len):
    header += file_handle.readline()