[[File:Indian Rock Python.jpg|thumb|[[Bannerghatta National Park]]]]
''P. molurus'' occurs in nearly all of the [[IndiaIndian Subcontinent]] south of the [[Himalayas]], including southern [[Nepal]], and [[PakistanBhutan]], [[Sri Lanka]], southeastern [[BhutanPakistan]], [[Bangladesh]], and probably in the north of [[Myanmar]].<ref name=Whitaker04>{{cite book |author1=Whitaker, R. |author2=Captain, A. |year=2004 |pages=3, 12, 78–81 |title=Snakes of India. The field guide |publisher=Draco Books |___location=Chennai, India |isbn=81-901873-0-9}}</ref> It lives in a wide range of habitats, including grasslands, swamps, marshes, rocky foothills, woodlands, open forest, and river valleys. It needs a permanentreliable source of water, hence its range not extending west of Pakistan or into the [[Thar Desert]] region, or portions of [[Gujarat]] or [[Rajasthan]] states (in western India).<ref name="Meh87">{{cite book |author1=Mehrtens, J. M. |year=1987 |title=Living Snakes of the World in Color |___location=New York |publisher=Sterling Publishers |isbn=0-8069-6460-X |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/livingsnakesofwo00mehr }}.</ref> It hides in abandoned mammal burrows, hollow trees, dense water reeds, and mangrove thickets.<ref name="Whitaker"/>
