move pvsystem.retrieve_sam to iotools
See original GitHub issueWhat do people think about moving pvsystem.retrieve_sam into the iotools subpackage? First brought up in #436.
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I’m not sure what the practical advantage of splitting the function by module/inverter would be. The API would remain the same in that you’d have to specify a string for the specific module/inverter database. I guess we could have different functions for each database.
https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/blob/f8921bd3879c4bcd9c0242005319729ab04ce7f6/pvlib/pvsystem.py#L1529-L1547
I’m in favor of moving it to iotools. I’d like to consider splitting that function into two, to read module and inverter parameters separately.