# pybedtools.bedtool.BedTool.total_coverage

BedTool.total_coverage()

  Return the total number of bases covered by this interval file.

  Does a self.merge() first to remove potentially multiple-counting bases.

  Example usage:

      >>> a = pybedtools.example_bedtool('a.bed')

  This does a merge() first, so this is what the total coverage is counting:

      >>> print(a.merge())
      chr1    1       500
      chr1    900     950

      >>> print(a.total_coverage())
      549