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

Answer 2

I just use for _ in range(n), it's straight to the point. It's going to generate the entire list for huge numbers in Python 2, but if you're using Python 3 it's not a problem.