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==Uses==

[[File:Spider Morph Ball Python.png|thumb|Ball pythons commonly exhibit mutations, such as this "Spider" morph, and are popular among snake keepers. As a Side-note: though it is a very pretty morph, specifically the "Spider" morph is known to come with a neurological health issue and is not recommended to breed anymore, since the so called "Wobble" can't be bred out, nor can it be treated or controlled and continues to stress out the animal.]]

Python skin is used to make clothing, such as vests, belts, boots and shoes, or fashion accessories such as handbags. It may also be stretched and formed as the sound board of some string musical instruments, such as the [[erhu]] spike-fiddle, [[sanxian]] and the [[sanshin]] lutes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.erhuworld.com/|title=8814vip葡京官方入口·网站首頁|website=www.erhuworld.com}}</ref><ref name="asovivasanshin.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.asovivasanshin.com/introduction.html |title=About Sanshin: Introduction to the asian banjo - the Okinawan sanshin |access-date=2015-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821200923/http://www.asovivasanshin.com/introduction.html |archive-date=2016-08-21 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

With a high demand of snake skin in the current fashion industry, countries in Africa and Southern Asia partake in the legal and illegal selling of python skin. Providing an extremely low pay for the hunters with an extremely high selling product for the consumers, there is an enormous gap between the beginning and end of the snake skin trade.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Wahab |name-list-style=amp |author2=Maulany, R. I. |author3=Nasri |author4=Nirsyawita |year=2020 |title=Hunting and trading activities of reticulated python (''Python reticulatus'') in South Sulawesi, Indonesia: A report from the field |journal=IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |volume=486 |issue=1 |pages=12029– |doi=10.1088/1755-1315/486/1/012029 |bibcode=2020E&ES..486a2029W |s2cid=219739375 |url=|doi-access=free }}</ref>