Simpler way to run a generator function without caring about items

Setting up a for loop for this could be relatively expensive, keeping in mind that a for loop in Python is fundamentally successive execution of simple assignment statements; you’ll be executing n (number of items in generator) assignments, only to discard the assignment targets afterwards.

You can instead feed the generator to a zero length deque; consumes at C-speed and does not use up memory as with list and other callables that materialise iterators/generators:

from collections import deque

def exhaust(generator):
    deque(generator, maxlen=0)

_{Taken from the consume itertools recipe.}