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Import error #3

@davidmeijer

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@davidmeijer

When importing any method from versalign.scoring before importing a method from either the aligner, msa, or pairwise modules will results in an ImportError:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/davidmeijer/repos/CLM/./harvest/scripts/parse_retromol_results.py", line 14, in <module>
    from versalign.scoring import create_substituion_matrix_dynamically
  File "/Users/davidmeijer/miniforge3/envs/clm/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versalign/scoring.py", line 9, in <module>
    from versalign.aligner import substitution_matrices
  File "/Users/davidmeijer/miniforge3/envs/clm/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versalign/aligner.py", line 8, in <module>
    from versalign.scoring import T
ImportError: cannot import name 'T' from partially initialized module 'versalign.scoring' (most likely due to a circular import) (/Users/davidmeijer/miniforge3/envs/clm/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versalign/scoring.py)

The issue can be mitigated by importing the scoring module after importing either aligner, msa, or pairwise module first. This will work, for example:

from versalign.aligner import setup_aligner
from versalign.scoring import create_substituion_matrix_dynamically

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