# Python

S python 

Difficulty

8

Attacks

Bite 1d4, Touch, Hug 1d4 drowning, Hug 2d4

S python 

Difficulty

8

Attacks

Bite 1d4, Touch, Hug 1d4 drowning, Hug 2d4

Base level

6

Base experience

82

Speed

3

Base AC

5

Base MR

0

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

1 (Very rare)

Genocidable

Yes

Weight

250

Nutritional value

100

Size

Large

Resistances

None

Resistances conveyed

None

A python:

 can swim.

 cannot pick up items.

 has no limbs.

 is an animal.
 has a serpent body.

 can lay eggs.

 is carnivorous.

 is normally generated hostile.

 is strong.

 has infravision.

Reference

monst.c#line1768

The python, S, is a snake that appears in NetHack. 

Strategy
Pythons are rarely remarkable or dangerous, as they are very slow-moving and do not do a particularly large amount of damage, although they can use all three of their attacks in one turn, and their grabbing attack can trap the player; near water, it can also potentially drown them, making pythons a source of YASD for players who forget this.
Unlike giant eels and other sea monsters with drowning attacks, they are not found near water any more frequently than other monsters, so it is easy to forget that they are capable. It doesn't help that the message (“The python grabs you!”) is different than the “swings itself around you” used for all of the other monsters capable of drowning players. On servers and variants that support it, setting a MSGTYPE rule for this message can help to remind you that drowning is possible. Greased armor can also protect from the crushing/drowning attack.

Encyclopedia entry
See the encyclopedia entry for snake.

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