HDF5 file created with h5py can't be opened by h5py

Question

I created an HDF5 file apparently without any problems, under Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit version), using Anaconda as Python distribution and writing in ipython notebooks. The under

Answer 1

Since we resolved the issue in the comments on my question, I'm writing the results out here to mark it as solved.

The main problem was that I forgot to close the file after I created it. There would have been two simple options, either:

import numpy as np
import h5py

f = h5py.File('myfile.hdf5','w')
group = f.create_group('a_group')
group.create_dataset(name='matrix', data=np.zeros((10, 10)), chunks=True, compression='gzip')
f.close()

or, my favourite because the file is closed automatically:

import numpy as np
import h5py

with h5py.File('myfile.hdf5','w') as f:
    group = f.create_group('a_group')
    group.create_dataset(name='matrix', data=np.zeros((10, 10)), chunks=True, compression='gzip')