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<h3 id="closing-of-unused-ids-and-garbage-collection">Closing of unused ids and garbage collection<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#closing-of-unused-ids-and-garbage-collection"></a>
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<p>In this package, the C-API of HDF5 is being used. For the C-API, it
is usually the programmer’s responsibility to close manually an HDF5-ID
that is being used by calling the appropriate “close” function. If
programs are not written very diligently, this can easily lead