TreeNode.
unrooted_deepcopy
(parent=None)[source]¶Walks the tree unrooted-style and returns a new copy
State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.
Perform a deepcopy of self and return a new copy of the tree as an unrooted copy. This is useful for defining new roots of the tree as the TreeNode.
This method calls TreeNode.unrooted_copy which is recursive.
parent (TreeNode or None) – Used to avoid infinite loops when performing the unrooted traverse
A new copy of the tree
See also
Examples
>>> from skbio import TreeNode
>>> tree = TreeNode.read(["((a,(b,c)d)e,(f,g)h)i;"])
>>> new_tree = tree.find('d').unrooted_deepcopy()
>>> print(new_tree)
(b,c,(a,((f,g)h)e)d)root;