pydicom.dataelem.DataElement_from_raw

pydicom.dataelem.DataElement_from_raw(raw_data_element: RawDataElement, encoding: str | MutableSequence[str] | None = None, dataset: Dataset | None = None) → DataElement

Return a DataElement created from raw_data_element.

Parameters:

• raw_data_element (RawDataElement) – The raw data to convert to a DataElement.

• encoding (str or list of str, optional) – The character encoding of the raw data.

• dataset (Dataset, optional) – If given, used to resolve the VR for known private tags.

Return type:

DataElement

Raises:

KeyError – If raw_data_element belongs to an unknown non-private tag and reading_validation_mode is set to RAISE.