MEL - combining polygons giving name?

[Anonymous]

This is in python
So I am dynamically creating faces using polyCreateFacet function and then combining all the polygons using mel.eval('CombinePolygon').

Apparently mel.eval is supposed to return the name of the mesh I just created but it doesn't. So I was wondering if there is a way to combine these polygons while at the same time giving the new polygon a name.

[lee.dunham]

looks like your using the wrong command, and im not sure if eval ever returns results from the command its evaluating, more likely whether its successful or not.
try polyUnite instead:

import maya.cmds as mc
mc.polyUnite(ch=1)

EDIT: this thread will also want re-directing to the python thread.