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

I was working with https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN and produced the same Error:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "detection.py", line 42, in <module>
    model.load_weights(model_path, by_name=True)
  File "/home/michael/Bachelor/important/Cable-detection/Mask_RCNN-2.1/samples/cable/mrcnn/model.py", line 2131, in load_weights
    f = h5py.File(filepath, mode='r')
  File "/home/michael/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/h5py/_hl/files.py", line 271, in __init__
    fid = make_fid(name, mode, userblock_size, fapl, swmr=swmr)
  File "/home/michael/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/h5py/_hl/files.py", line 101, in make_fid
    fid = h5f.open(name, flags, fapl=fapl)
  File "h5py/_objects.pyx", line 54, in h5py._objects.with_phil.wrapper (/tmp/pip-s_7obrrg-build/h5py/_objects.c:2840)
  File "h5py/_objects.pyx", line 55, in h5py._objects.with_phil.wrapper (/tmp/pip-s_7obrrg-build/h5py/_objects.c:2798)
  File "h5py/h5f.pyx", line 78, in h5py.h5f.open (/tmp/pip-s_7obrrg-build/h5py/h5f.c:2117)
OSError: Unable to open file (Addr overflow, addr = 800, size=8336, eoa=2144)
HDF5: infinite loop closing library
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The solution above worked for me too. I interrupted the training at a random point, therefor the .hdf5 file was not closed properly and could not be opened afterward.

Answer 2

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')