def fake_alignment(T):
    """
    Fake alignment to appease treetime when only using it for naming nodes...
    This is lifted from refine.py and ideally could be imported

    Parameters
    -------
    T : <class 'Bio.Phylo.BaseTree.Tree'>

    Returns
    -------
    <class 'Bio.Align.MultipleSeqAlignment'>
    """
    from Bio import SeqRecord, Seq, Align
    seqs = []
    for n in T.get_terminals():
        seqs.append(SeqRecord.SeqRecord(seq=Seq.Seq('ACGT'), id=n.name,
            name=n.name, description=''))
    aln = Align.MultipleSeqAlignment(seqs)
    return aln
