"Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote in message news:pan.2007.06.03.20.03.25.278011 at gmx.net... || Warren Stringer wanted to call the functions just for the side effects | without interest in the return values. So building a list of return | values which is immediately thrown away is a waste of time and memory. Also unnecessary: for f in callables: f() tjr