There's one worse than the king cobra. It's called the Northern Philippine cobra - the deadliest cobra in the world and the third deadliest out of all species of snakes. Its venom will kill you in 30 minutes if it goes untreated.

Reverting back to pythons. I have actually seen one, I tell a lie - the one in Bohol called Prony (now deceased) that was an attraction on the inland tour.

They tried to get me to hold it around my neck too