Idiomatic Python: 'times' loop [duplicate]

Question

Say I have a function foo that I want to call n times. In Ruby, I would write:

n.times { foo } 

In Python, I could write:

for _ in xrange(n): foo() 

But that seems like a hacky way of doing things.

My question: Is there an idiomatic way of doing this in Python?

Answer 1

You've already shown the idiomatic way:

for _ in range(n): # or xrange if you are on 2.X     foo() 

Not sure what is "hackish" about this. If you have a more specific use case in mind, please provide more details, and there might be something better suited to what you are doing.

Answer 2

If you want the times method, and you need to use it on your own functions, try this:

def times(self, n, *args, **kwargs):     for _ in range(n):         self.__call__(*args, **kwargs)  import new def repeatable(func):     func.times = new.instancemethod(times, func, func.__class__)     return func 

now add a @repeatable decorator to any method you need a times method on:

@repeatable def foo(bar):     print bar  foo.times(4, "baz") #outputs 4 lines of "baz"