def combine(beds, beds_sorted=False, postmerge=True):
    """
    Combine a list of bed files or BedTool objects into a single BedTool object.

    Parameters
    ----------
    beds : list
        List of paths to bed files or BedTool objects.

    beds_sorted : boolean
        Whether the bed files in beds are already sorted. If False, all bed
        files in beds will be sorted.

    postmerge : boolean
        Whether to merge intervals after combining beds together. 

    Returns
    -------
    out : pybedtools.BedTool
        New sorted BedTool with intervals from all input beds.

    """
    beds = copy.deepcopy(beds)
    for i,v in enumerate(beds):
        if type(v) == str:
            beds[i] = pbt.BedTool(v)
        if not beds_sorted:
            beds[i] = beds[i].sort()

    # For some reason, doing the merging in the reduce statement doesn't work. I
    # think this might be a pybedtools bug. In any fashion, I can merge
    # afterward although I think it makes a performance hit because the combined
    # bed file grows larger than it needs to.
    out = reduce(lambda x,y : x.cat(y, postmerge=False), beds)
    out = out.sort()
    if postmerge:
        out = out.merge()
    return out