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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/5175#issuecomment-821854599 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5175 821854599 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDgyMTg1NDU5OQ== 5821660 2021-04-17T17:04:48Z 2021-04-17T17:04:48Z MEMBER

@skorper So, the workaround would be something along the lines:

```python

dataset = xr.open_dataset('/path/to/file.nc') nc_dataset = dataset._close.self.ds type(nc_dataset) <class 'netCDF4._netCDF4.Dataset'> ```

But note, this only works if the dataset was opened/created from a single source file. And I'm not sure, if this is wanted behaviour.

@alexamici can possibly answer your question, if such API would be possible. To my understanding the backend refactor also did a great deal to disentangle Datasets from the underlying data sources. Please correct me @alexamici, if I'm wrong. 

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