Remove usage of PHP alias in the Python client

[rzats]

Secondary PR to https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata/pull/1288 that should be merged & deployed alongside it - fixed the delphi-epidata version to the newest client.

[capnrefsmmat]

Since the Epidata cient API is changing, we'll need to update the version number required in setup.py along with these changes, so users are guaranteed to have the updated version of the client.

[rzats]

@capnrefsmmat good point! I bumped the version once and will change it again if the release ends up being e.g. 4.1.3.

[melange396]

Did you get a chance to run tests for this with the updated client from https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata/pull/1288 ? I think you might need to update the .return_values for the @patched async_epidata(): https://github.com/cmu-delphi/covidcast/blob/474dc20ad2f123b5b89d21f8443ee107537fe84e/Python-packages/covidcast-py/tests/test_covidcast.py#L261-L263

[melange396]

can we update the changelog, and then follow this set of instructions to update the version number for the package and rebuild docs and other artifacts? then we will be prepped to upload to PyPI when everything else is done.

[melange396]

@dshemetov makes a good point in https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata/pull/1288#issuecomment-1749368736 ... we should probably put documentation and show warning messages for deprecating _async_fetch_epidata(), just in case anyone is using it.

[melange396]

@rzats this is failing at the linter now, i guess you didnt go through that part of the tests?

[melange396]

linting/pydocstyle is happy now, but now python tests are failing... @rzats can you take a look?

[rzats]

@melange396 latest round of tests is passing!