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[Modulok <mo...@gm...>]

List,

*waves* hello everyone. (I'm new to the list. Forgive me if this is a dev list
and not a users list. If so, please point me to the correct list.) I've written
a fair bit of python and MEL, but new to pymel and to mixing python and Maya in
general. Thus, few questions:

I have a marking menu as a child of the maya main window written in pymel. It
works. I trigger it via hotkey. The problem, is it doesn't go away when I'm
done. In the hotkey editor, when using MEL, you get a press and release hotkey
which run commands like this::


    // Press code:
    if (`popupMenu -exists tempMM`) { deleteUI tempMM; }
    popupMenu -button 1 -ctl false -alt false -allowOptionBoxes true
-parent `findPanelPopupParent` -mm 1 tempMM;
    source "menu_foo";


    // Release code:
    if (`popupMenu -exists tempMM`) { deleteUI tempMM; }


What is the python equivalent? I tried the following but I don't think it's
right::

    # Press code:
    try:
        tempMM.delete()
    except NameError:
        pass
    finally:
        import foo


    # Release code:
    try:
        tempMM.delete()
    except NameError:
        pass

Is there a better way to set this up for calling python code?

Below is my example pymel marking menu code. The other question I have, is
should this be wrapped in a function i.e. 'main' that I call after I import it?
I'm still wrapping my head around mixing python and maya.

    # Generic marking menu sample code:

    import pymel.core.windows as pwin
    import pymel.core.uitypes as ui

    def amazing(*args):
        '''Does something amazing.'''
        print("amazing!")


    def fantastic(*args):
        print("fantastic!")


    #*************************************************************************
    # Make the UI
    #*************************************************************************

    # Attach this control to the maya main window. (Just make sure to delete
    # it when you're done.

    tempMM = ui.PopupMenu(parent="MayaWindow")
    tempMM.setMarkingMenu()
    tempMM.setAltModifier()
    tempMM.setButton(1)   #<-- Active with alt+left mouse button.

    item1 = ui.CommandMenuItem(parent=tempMM)
    item1.setLabel("Amazing")
    item1.setRadialPosition("S")
    item1.setCommand(pwin.Callback(amazing))

    item2 = ui.CommandMenuItem(parent=tempMM)
    item2.setLabel("Fantastic")
    item2.setRadialPosition("N")
    item2.setCommand(pwin.Callback(fantastic))

-Modulok-