pynetdicom.utils.set_ae¶

pynetdicom.utils.set_ae(value: str | None, name: str, allow_empty: bool = True, allow_none: bool = True) → str | None[source]¶

Convert value to an AE like parameter and apply validation.

Parameters:

value (str or None) – The value to be converted.
name (str) – The name of the parameter being converted.
allow_empty (bool, optional) – If True (default) skip validation when an empty string or None is used.

Returns:

If allow_empty is True then may return None, otherwise the string will be returned.

Return type:

str or None