RuntimeError: NetCDF: HDF error

[adibratul]

while checking some attributes from a netcdf file with following code

MCVE Code Sample

# Your code here
with xr.open_dataset(s5p_file, group='PRODUCT') as s5p_img_PRO:
    print(s5p_img_PRO)

Expected Output

a list of metadata should be appread

Problem Description

RuntimeError: NetCDF: HDF error

Versions

python 3.7 and jupyter notebook

Output of xr.show_versions()

[dcherian]

what is s5p_file? HDF error means your file couldn't be read for one of many reasons: corrupt file for example.

[adibratul]

yes it was corrupted

[ac547]

Another cause for this issue could be an unclosed netcdf file.
Specifically if you did something like:

my_file = Dataset('my_file.nc','w')

and did not close it with

my_file.close()

The ncfile is still open and the HDF library still has a lock on it.