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-import h5py 
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-#Shows how to create an externalLink (symbolic) to a hdf5 File
-#Documentation available at: https://docs.h5py.org/en/stable/high/group.html#external-links
-myfile = h5py.File('./example.h5','w')
-myfile['ext link'] = h5py.ExternalLink("testdata_2.h5", "/")
-
-myfile.close()
-
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