pynetdicom.dsutils.encode

pynetdicom.dsutils.encode(ds, is_implicit_vr, is_little_endian)

Encode a pydicom Dataset ds to bytes.

Parameters:

• ds (pydicom.dataset.Dataset) – The dataset to encode
• is_implicit_vr (bool) – The element encoding scheme the dataset will be encoded with.
• is_little_endian (bool) – The byte ordering the dataset will be encoded in.

Returns:

The encoded dataset as bytes (if successful) or None if the encoding failed.

Return type:

bytes or None