pybedtools vs bedtools

[cmccabe]

I had trouble installing bedtools on windows using cygwin (or at least I did a year ago). I am reading about pybedtools and just want to make sure I understand it:

Using BedTools 2.20

 mergeBed - i example.bed > merged_example.bed

Using pybedtools:

 pybedtools.merge('example.bed') > merged_example.bed

Using BedTools 2.20:

 intersectBed -a merged_example.bed -b IDT.bed > intersected_example.bed

Using pybedtools:

 pybedtools.intersect(intersectBed -a merged_example.bed -b IDT.bed) > intersected_example.bed

Thank you