[Python] Pylint wants a variable to be named as a constant [C0103]

Why does Pylint require a variable to have UPPER_CASE naming as though it is a constant?

"""Stack reproducible example."""

some_list = ['foo', 'bar']
for i in some_list:
counter = 3
while counter != 0:
print("Value of 'counter': " + str(counter))
counter -= 1


This gives the linting error of:

# C0103: Constant name "counter" doesn't conform to UPPER_CASE naming style (invalid-name)


However unlike Avogadro's Constant, Pi, or the speed of sound in a vaccum, the value of counter changes which surely must render it a 'variable'?

I have read the page regarding C0103 but I obviously don't understand something.

Is a for-loop considered a single-use function thus altering convention such as in this question?

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