0.9.2#

Major changes#

  • Renamed Attribute class and related modules to !DataElement. Old code will continue to work until pydicom 1.0, but with a !DeprecationWarning (issue22, r72, r73)

  • Added support for character sets through Specific Character Set (0008,0005), using Python unicode. Thus foreign languages can display names in Greek, Japanese, Chinese etc characters in environments which support unicode (demonstrated in dicomtree.py example using Tkinter GUI) (r64, r65)

Other Enhancements#

  • Added support for auto-completion of dataset elements in ipython; also all environments using Python 2.6 (r69, r70)

  • Added __iter__() to Dataset so returns data elements in DICOM order with “for data_elem in dataset:” (r68)

  • Added dicomtree.py example program showing a DICOM file in a GUI window (Tkinter/Tix).

  • Added !PersonName class to parse components of names more easily (r55)

  • Added UID class to handle UID values. Name rather than UID number shown, UID_dictionary used (r51).

  • Code tested under Python 2.6

  • Added !DataElement.name property; synonym for !DataElement.description() function

Bug Fixes#

  • Fixed issue27, sequence with a single empty item read incorrectly

  • Fixed bug that read_OW did not handle !UndefinedLength (r50)

  • Fixed bugs in example files anonymize.py, !DicomInfo.py, and dicomtree.py (r51)

  • Fixed issue33, VR=UN being split on backslash (r70)

  • Fixed issue18, util directory not installed (r45)

Other#

  • Added example file myprint.py – shows how to custom format DICOM file information (r67)

  • Reorganized test files and added various new tests

  • added preliminary work on encapsulated data (r50)

  • added some simple files to view or work with pixel data (r46)

  • Dataset.!PixelDataArray() NumPy array changed to property Dataset.!PixelArray

  • changed to setuptools for packaging rather than distutils