QMenu displays incorrectly when setParent called

Question

I want to create a function to build a context menu that can be dynamically added to a window's menubar. Consider the following minimal example for adding a simple QMenu:

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets

class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MainWindow, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        menu = QtWidgets.QMenu('Menu', parent=self)
        act1 = menu.addAction('Action 1')
        act2 = menu.addAction('Action 2')
        self.menuBar().addMenu(menu)

app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
window = MainWindow()
window.show()
app.exec_()

This works as expected. Note that setting the parent for the QMenu is required for it to show up.

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Now, if I break the menu code out into its own function and set the parent explicitly, I get the following. What's going on here?

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets

def createMenu():
    menu = QtWidgets.QMenu('Menu')
    act1 = menu.addAction('Action 1')
    act2 = menu.addAction('Action 2')
    return menu

class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MainWindow, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        menu = createMenu()
        menu.setParent(self)
        self.menuBar().addMenu(menu)

app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
window = MainWindow()
window.show()
app.exec_()

Answer 1

The way you're calling setParent resets the window flags, so do this instead:

    menu.setParent(self, menu.windowFlags())