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As mentioned in #1332, I opted to rework the function to allow scalar orientation inputs instead of editing the docstring to prohibit them. I also did some cleanup in the tests to avoid code duplication.

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dni = np.array(dni)
dhi = np.array(dhi)
# GH 1127, GH 1332
if np.isscalar(surface_tilt):
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Use numpy.atleast_1d? It would avoid the if but otherwise I don't know if it's better.

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I think the requirement is that surface_tilt be an array of the same length as the meteo inputs, so np.atleast_1d would still need to be followed by a conditional np.repeat or something.

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full_like docs say it requires a scalar input, but this works:

a = np.array([1,2,3])

np.full_like(a, 7)

array([7, 7, 7])

np.full_like(a, np.array([7,8,9]))

array([7, 8, 9])

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Seems to work with lists and Series too. Always happy to learn a new numpy function :)

dni = np.array(dni)
dhi = np.array(dhi)
# GH 1127, GH 1332
if np.isscalar(surface_tilt):
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full_like docs say it requires a scalar input, but this works:

a = np.array([1,2,3])

np.full_like(a, 7)

array([7, 7, 7])

np.full_like(a, np.array([7,8,9]))

array([7, 8, 9])

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New test failures are the same as #717 (comment), so ignoring here

@kandersolar kandersolar merged commit 1ab0eb2 into pvlib:master Jan 4, 2022
@kandersolar kandersolar deleted the pvfactors_orientation_fix branch January 4, 2022 01:26
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