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Because of confusion with the Burmese python, exaggerations, and stretched skins in the past, the maximum length of this subspecies is difficult to tell. The longest scientifically recorded specimen, collected in Pakistan, was {{cvt|4.6|m|ftin}} long and weighed {{cvt|52|kg|lboz}}. In Pakistan, Indian pythons commonly reach a length of {{cvt|2.4|-|3.0|m|ftin}}.<ref name=Minton>{{Cite journal |first=S. A. |last=Minton |title=A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=134 |issue=2 |year=1966 |pages=117–118 |hdl=2246/1129 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1129}}</ref>

DiffersThe Indian python differs from the [[Burmese python]] (''Python bivittatus'') byin the following signsways:

*the presence of light "eyes" in the centers of spots located on the sides of the trunk;

*reddish or pinkish color of light stripes on the sides of the head;

*a diamond - shaped spot on the head blurred in the front part;

*usually lighter in color, dominated by brown, reddish-brown, yellowish-brown and grayish-brown tones;

*unlike ''P. bivittatus'', which inhabit moist and meadow habitats, it usually prefers drier and arid places;<ref>[https://www.markoshea.info/oba3-2_india01.php Mark O'Shea — The quest species — Indian rock python & Burmese rock python]</ref>

==Distribution and habitat==