This can't be legal...

[Bluebonnet Herp]

Question to the OP:

Why does it seem like something that would be illegal?

You can order lion in some places perfectly legally.

It's rather my opinion that it would be. To me, eating a python would be like a cat lover eating it cat. I couldn't sum myself up to do it, but to each their own.
Albeit these may be the same pythons hunted for skin too, OR it IS likely they may, in fact, be royal pythons. (More likely than not.)