This species is confirmed to be an egg-layer ([[oviparous]]) like other [[Pythonidae|pythons]]. The mating season is between July and August, after which the female will typically find a vacant mammal or reptile burrow (or an otherwise dark, secluded ___location) to occupy for a number of weeks, effectively converting the space into a nursery. Females usually lay around ten semi-soft, leathery, oval-shaped eggs, andwhich they then incubate with their body heat for several weeks, abstaining from all food or water, not wishing coilsto aboutdeprive themany providingessential warmth to the developing eggs until they hatch. Once the eggs do hatchbegin cracking, and the femaleyoung pythons finally take their first breaths of air, the likely starving and parched mother leaves her offspring in-search of nourishment, never to return. She does not take care of the youngbabies, which are instead born with a hunter’s instinct. The snakelets begin their lives by hunting larger insects, such as beetles or large crickets, before gradually moving-on to mammalian prey.<ref name=arp/>
