gffutils.interface.FeatureDB.count_features_of_type

FeatureDB.count_features_of_type(featuretype=None)

Simple count of features.

Can be faster than “grep”, and is faster than checking the length of results from gffutils.FeatureDB.features_of_type().

Parameters:

featuretype (string) – Feature type (e.g., “gene”) to count. If None, then count all features in the database.

Return type:

The number of features of this type, as an integer