How to efficiently extract coordinates from a `pybedtools.Interval`?
The reason why unpacking an Interval results in strings instead of ints might be related to how indexing by position works.

Even without considering the string/int issue, it seems slightly more efficient to access the interval's attributes rather than unpacking them directly:

In [311]: %timeit [(chrom, start, end, strand) for (chrom, start, end, _, _, strand) in my_bedtool]
306 ms ± 26.7 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

In [312]: %timeit [(interval.chrom, interval.start, interval.end, interval.strand) for interval in my_bedtool]
238 ms ± 24.3 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)


To resolve the ugliness issue, attribute access can be made more compact through the use of operator.attrgetter:

In [313]: from operator import attrgetter

In [314]: get_interval_attrs = attrgetter("chrom", "start", "stop", "strand")

In [315]: %timeit [get_interval_attrs(interval) for interval in my_bedtool]
239 ms ± 26.7 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)