Wow... 29 viewers, hi to the esri staff that I haven't heard of. 325 emails? must have generated some interest.
BUT
I will close this off as a discussion since it appears that the status quo will remain for some reason (legacy purposes?).
Workarounds abound ... I don't need them, but thank you. I am more interested in finding a suitable explanations for my students without using
'.... because, that's the way it is... '
in an explanation of why python is widely adopted, except when saving in the field calculator.
Anyone at UC... ask around...
Dan