# pybedtools.bedtool.BedTool.absolute_distance

BedTool.absolute_distance(other, closest_kwargs=None, use_midpoints=False)

  Returns an iterator of the absolute distances between features in self and other.

  If `use_midpoints` is True, then only use the midpoints of features (which will return values where features are overlapping). Otherwise, when features overlap the value will always be zero.

  `closest_kwargs` are passed to self.closest(); either `d` or ‘D` are required in order to get back distance values (`d=True` is default)