How To Close An Hdf5 Using Low Level Python Api?

I was able to modify the cache settings of an HDF5 file by combining both the high and low level Python h5py API as defined in the following Stack Overflow question: How to set cac

Solution 1:

I think you are looking for .close()

f.close()

Although looking closer, I'm not sure why contextlib.closing(...) didn't work.

I edited the line involving contextlib to be:

with contextlib.closing(h5py.File(filename, fapl=propfaid)) as fid:

and removed

f = h5py.File(fid)

Afterwards, I could check that fid was closed and renaming file worked as expected.

print fid
<Closed HDF5 file>

os.rename(filename, 'foo2.hdf5')

No errors and check of directory shows the new name