pybedtools.bedtool.BedTool.moveto

BedTool.moveto(*args, **kwargs)

Move to a new filename (can be much quicker than BedTool.saveas())

Move BED file to new filename, fn.

Returns a new BedTool for the new file.

Example usage:

>>> # make a copy so we don't mess up the example file
>>> a = pybedtools.example_bedtool('a.bed').saveas()
>>> a_contents = str(a)
>>> b = a.moveto('other.bed')
>>> b.fn
'other.bed'
>>> b == a_contents
True