1.0.0#

This is a major release, with major changes, including backwards-incompatible changes.

Major changes#

full Python 3 compatibility - one code base for both Python 2 and Python 3
package name and import name now match – use import pydicom rather than import dicom.
added handlers for converting (7fe0,0010) Pixel Data to a numpy.ndarray
- optional GDCM support for reading files with compressed pixel data (#18)
- optional Pillow and jpeg_ls support for reading some compressed pixel data files
- support for decompressing a compressed dataset in-place
DICOM dictionary updated to 2017c
cleaned up DICOM dictionary code, old non-DICOM-keyword code removed

added util/fixer.py callbacks available to fix non DICOM-compliant values before exceptions thrown
added context management methods to Dataset
added misc.is_dicom() function to check for DICOM file format
added date/time converters (#143)
added option to attempt other VRs if translate fails (#197)
added heuristics to read files that have no preamble or file meta information
support for multi-valued DA, DT, TM data elements (#212)
DataElement: added keyword and is_retired properties
datadict: added dictionary_is_retired()
datadict: added ability to add custom DICOM dictionary items via add_dict_entry() and add_dict_entries()
added some support for pickle
added support for VRs OD, OL and UC
added support for Thai, Japanese and Chinese encodings (#346, #353)
added support for slicing to Dataset
add/update TransferSyntaxUID when writing standard
renamed UID package to uid (conforms to Python standard)
added property uid.is_private
added definitions for storage SOP Class UIDs (#172)
added possibility to read only specific tags (#95)
added missing meta elements when writing DICOM file
added encaps generator functions to access compressed frames
read_file changed to dcmread, write_file to dcmwrite for greater clarity. Previous names still available for backwards compatibility.

added TravisCI and AppVeyor builds for automatic tests under Linux and Windows
added automatic code coverage builds and PEP-8 checks
added automatic documentation builds on GitHub Pages for development and release builds
added PyPy support
removed support for Python 2.6, added support for Python 3.6