In a move reminiscent of snake-handler Steve Irwin, the Speaker of the NT Parliament, Kezia Purick, has captured a large python that slithered onto her property.

Proving she knows how to deal with reptiles, the Country Liberal Party MP restored order in the house and then later nabbed the slippery critter after it entered her chicken coop in Darwin's rural fringe on Wednesday night.

"I just moved it a little bit and then I put my foot on its head," she said of the capture.

"And then just moved it back a little bit with the gloves, grabbed its neck.

"You put another hand halfway down the body and pick it up, and there you go."

A photograph of Ms Purick holding the snake while wearing a t-shirt, shorts and large black gumboots was posted on her Facebook page, prompting almost as many comments about her attire as about the snake itself.

But it is one thing to grab a large python and another thing to relocate it somewhere.

"He is in the Esky, a big, big Esky, just until I can call a snake man," Ms Purick said on Thursday, almost 24 hours after she secured the animal.

"It is comfortable, it is safe, it is cool and it can't get out. That is the main thing."

Ms Purick said snakes were a common feature around her home.

"I have caught a few of these blighters," she said.

Last year Ms Purick made headlines after suggesting federal Liberal party member Kevin Andrews should be castrated if he tried to tell people how to live their lives, and described him as "pooncy".

Mr Andrews, who is now Defence Minister, had said there was a higher incidence of de facto relationships breaking up than married couples and that married couples were more stable.

Snakes appear to be on the move around Darwin, with two women given nasty surprises by snakes slithering into their homes on the weekend, with one being bitten as she lay asleep.