While deployed on MIA-POW recovery missions in 1992 and 1993 to Cambodia, one of our crew chiefs managed to capture and kill a 16 foot Burmese python which he skinned, cooked (yum, there were 110 of us on that particular mission and probably 60 tried the snake), then took the skin into Thailand where he traded it for a pair of Python-skin boots.
One of these days I’ll make stills from the video I shot of that and many other things.
I never ate python but ate lots of rattlers. Tasty meat.