Drawbacks

If you intensively check sequence names exists in FASTA file using in operator on FASTA object like:

>>> fa = pyfastx.Fasta('tests/data/test.fa.gz')
>>> # Suppose seqnames has 100000 names
>>> for seqname in seqnames:
>>>     if seqname in fa:
>>>             do something

This will take a long time to finish. Because, pyfastx does not load the index into memory, the in operating is corresponding to sql query existence from index database. The faster alternative way to do this is:

>>> fa = pyfastx.Fasta('tests/data/test.fa.gz')
>>> # load all sequence names into a set object
>>> all_names = set(fa.keys())
>>> for seqname in seqnames:
>>>     if seqname in all_names:
>>>             do something