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We could possibly make an object that was API compatible with the subset of netCDF4.Dataset that you needed, but opened and closed the file whenever it actually pulled data. We would keep an LRU cache of open files around for efficiency as discussed earlier. In this case we could possibly optionally swap out the current netCDF4.Dataset object with this thing without much refactoring?

Yes, this could work for a proof of concept.

In the long term, it would be good to integrate this into xarray so we can support alternative backends (e.g., h5netcdf, scipy, pynio, loaders for custom file formats like @rabernat and @pwolfram work with) in a fully consistent fashion without needing to make a separate wrapper for each.

 
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