Add support for filtering rows by flags #1337
                
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Hi!
This PR adds a
filtermethod toAlignmentFileto support reading flags that have given flags set or unset. This is faster than doing this test in aforloop in the Python code because it avoids a useless copy of reads that are discarded.For instance, on a BAM file with 6,369,435 reads with only 315,068 of them being mapped, iterating with
is about 2x faster than:
I added some tests and type hints as well.