clearsky.py requires scipy.io about pvlib-python HOT 6 CLOSED

Recent matlab files should be hdf5 based (see this question on SO). So maybe we could simply update this file and read it with pd.read_hdf (Seems not to work with the current file, so maybe this is created with an older matlab version).

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Looks like it's matlab 5.

$ head pvlib/data/LinkeTurbidities.mat 
MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file, Platform: PCWIN64, Created on: Mon Jul 16 10:16:10 2012

I checked the PVLIB 1.2 release and it's the same. I think that the ideal situation would be for both the matlab and python projects to use the same .h5 file. Maybe this could be a part of the work going into #3.

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Yes, I think the best would be for us to lead in translating this into a more portable file format, best case would be a .csv that can then be read with standard techniques (as this is just a 2D array). Any takers? In the near term, @wholmgren , could you add scipy.io to the setup.py to make sure we're internally consistent?

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Yes, but I would prefer to go with something like

try: 
    import scipy.io
except ImportError:
    raise(ImportError, 'You must install scipy to automatically load the Linke Turbidities')

right before line 137.

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Sounds good to me

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I close this for 0.1 in favor of #36

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