pydicom.values.convert_text

pydicom.values.convert_text(byte_string: bytes, encodings: Optional[List[str]] = None) → Union[str, Sequence[str]]

Return a decoded text VR value, ignoring backslashes.

Text VRs are ‘SH’, ‘LO’ and ‘UC’.

Parameters

• byte_string (bytes) – The encoded text VR element value.

• encodings (list of str, optional) – A list of the character encoding schemes used to encode the value.

Returns

The decoded value(s).

Return type

str or list of str