mGear menu deleteUI bug

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While trying to debug the menu not loading correctly with this error in maya 2022: // # RuntimeError: deleteUI: Object ‘mGear’ not found.

I found a little more context to the actual error. It appears it's actually a pymel bug. On a fresh start the very first time you call pm.menu it parses the return value incorrectly and returns an invalid object. # Result: ui.Menu('graphEditorWindow|graphEditor1|False') #

Subsequent calls to pm.menu return a boolean as expected. Interestingly if you invoke it this way pm.menu('mGear2', exists=True, query=True) then it always seems to return the correct type, even on a fresh start. Either of the equivalent cmds calls also always seem to return the correct type. cmds.menu('mGear2', exists=True) cmds.menu('mGear2', exists=True, query=True)

So if you avoid the bugged call then you shouldn't need a blind try/catch in menu.create