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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_region_bed(region, items, out_file, want_gzip=True):
 """Retrieve BED file of regions to analyze, either single or multi-region. """

    variant_regions = bedutils.population_variant_regions(items, merged=True)
    target = shared.subset_variant_regions(variant_regions, region, out_file, items)
    if not target:
        raise ValueError("Need BED input for strelka2 regions: %s %s" % (region, target))
    if not isinstance(target, six.string_types) or not os.path.isfile(target):
        chrom, start, end = target
        target = "%s-regions.bed" % utils.splitext_plus(out_file)[0]
        with file_transaction(items[0], target) as tx_out_file:
            with open(tx_out_file, "w") as out_handle:
                out_handle.write("%s\t%s\t%s\n" % (chrom, start, end))
    out_file = target
    if want_gzip:
        out_file = vcfutils.bgzip_and_index(out_file, items[0]["config"])
    return out_file