Maya scripting crap - The 3rd

I stumbled over some more marvels of maya scripting. This time it's about user interface layout. You see, sometimes you don't know the parent of a certain UI, so you have to ask maya. And how do you do that?

form = cmds.setParent(q=True)

Yes. You're pretending to set the parent, but actually get the parent! All because of that "clever" way of calling command in query mode. You hardly can get less python-codex than this.

Also there is a command called "iconTextScrollList". And it has nothing to do with icons. Nothing. Nada. Niente. How crude must the development of this program been that these kinds of errors/lazynesses happened...?