re: Pro Tip: Do NOT teach your pet python how to open doors.

Some friends in college had a pet snake. It was a similar breed as the one in the OP, but smaller. I hated that damn thing and I thought they were a little bit trashy for even having it. When we went over to their place to play XBox, the snake wasn't in the terrarium like it usually was. I asked where it was hiding, and they told me it died.

I'll give you one fricking guess as to what I felt slithering around my shoulder on the back of chair not 20 minutes later while we were playing XBox.