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Add a note about unable to write errors for summary/statepoint files on OpenMC re-runs from Python API.
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‎docs/source/usersguide/troubleshoot.rst‎

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to add a line in your ``.profile`` or ``.bash_profile`` setting the
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:envvar:`OPENMC_CROSS_SECTIONS` environment variable.
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RuntimeError: Failed to open HDF5 file with mode 'w': summary.h5
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This often occurs when working with the Python API and executing multiple OpenMC
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runs in a script. If an :class:`openmc.StatePoint` is open in the Python interpreter,
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the file handle of the statpoint file as well as the linked `summary.h5` file will
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be unavailable for writing, causing this error to appear. To avoid the situation,
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it is recommended that data be extracted from statepoint files in a context manager:
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.. code-block:: python
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with openmc.StatePoint('statepoint.10.h5') as sp:
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k_eff = sp.k_combined
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or that the :meth:`StatePoint.close` method is called before executing a subsequent
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OpenMC run.
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Geometry Debugging
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‎examples/jupyter/chain_simple.xml‎

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../../tests/chain_simple.xml

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