Make the Clade class public

[bsweger]

This is a small change related to the work on reichlab/variant-nowcast-hub#212

Having Clade as a public class means we can use it for type checking. For example, the target data scripts we're writing for the variant-nowcast-hub will benefit from typing the object returned by CladeTime.assign_clades().

[zkamvar]

looks cromulent.

I'm assuming that the underscore prefix meant internal?

[bsweger]

I'm assuming that the underscore prefix meant internal?

Heh, the underscore is the Python convention for making something private. But it's not enforced, it's just a polite way of saying "don't import me"

[zkamvar]

I'm assuming that the underscore prefix meant internal?

Heh, the underscore is the Python convention for making something private. But it's not enforced, it's just a polite way of saying "don't import me"

Oh! R has a similar convention, except it's a . prefix instead of an underscore (for compatibility with S, which used to use the underscore for assignment):

.x <- 1
x <- 2
ls()
#> [1] "x"

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