How do you know...?

[soy.lor.n]

Your really starting to nit pick about the terms were using. In the BALL PYTHON HOBBY, when something is labeled "HET", we mean for a recessive trait.

You know that, so why are you making this so difficult????

Then what about the yellowbelly??
His point is exactly that it doesn't matter for him, because he *does* know, but plenty of the people here asking questions DON'T know. That's why they're asking!
That's why if you say "het means it carries one copy of the gene needed to make a morph" then it will confuse them when they're going to look for a het spider or pastel