U.S. set to approve python ban

[WingedWolfPsion]

The whole 'proven to be injurious' thing? No.

Actually, there was some evidence to suggest that the Burms were replacing missing mid-level predators in the Everglades...taking up the slack for waning populations of bobcat, for example.
What impact does that have? Well, Burms eat a lot of smaller predators, such as opossums, raccoons, rabbits, etc.
THOSE animals eat a lot of small rodents, bird nestlings, and are quite fond of reptile eggs, which they sniff out and dig up. The small, rapidly-reproducing herbivores like rabbits destroy a lot of vegetation.
So, the presence of the Burmese is helpful to native turtles, snakes, and probably even alligators, in spite of the few they might eat. (In turn, large alligators eat Burms).

So, while they are an invasive species in the Everglades, the idea that they are 'injurious' is pure speculation. Yes, a snake ate a couple of endangered rats. They are rats. Lots of things eat rats--gators, birds of prey, native snakes...the missing bobcats....
Hopefully you see the point.

Burmese pythons don't even rate in the top 100 threats to the Everglades. The most horrendously damaging invasive species in the Everglades are very non-sensational and non-photogenic...they're plants.
As has been pointed out many times, the domestic cat is one of the most terrible invasives in the country, and it certainly does a heck of lot more damage to the Everglades than the Burmese python could ever hope to.