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[JulianBriggs]

Provide a pvoutput.get_status without importing big libraries: numpy, pandas, cartopy etc

Detailed Description

Provide a pvoutput.get_status without importing big libraries: numpy, pandas, cartopy etc

Context

I struggled to install pvoutput on Ubuntu-20.04 LTS due to cartopy requiring late version of proj which is not available on ubuntu 20.04 LTS
And I want to keep Docker images small for rapid development and orchestration
I prefer to get statuses as list of list of tuples of float
rather than pandas frame of numpy float.

Simplify install as above
keep Docker images small for rapid development and orchestration

Possible Implementation

Separate pvoutput.get_status code into a separate module. Then import that module into the full module.

[peterdudfield]

Yea I think thats a great idea. I really like keeping things light-weight as you say.

Do you want to have a go at this?

[peterdudfield]

I just took out 'cartopy' - same as bug you got above. I think (hope) that this package is not critical. I believe this is used for plotting

[JackKelly]

yeah, I agree, cartopy is probably just used for plotting in the pvoutput code.