pydicom 0.9.9 Release Notes
In addition to bug fixes, pydicom 0.9.9 contains updates for all dicom dictionaries.
New features include DICOMDIR handling, and a utility module which produces python/pydicom source code to recreate a dicom file.
Major changes / enhancements
- All dicom dictionaries updated (standard dictionary, UID dictionary, and private dictionaries)
- Dicom commands also added to dictionary
- Ability to work with DICOMDIR: read_dicomdir() function and DicomDir class. Example file show_dicomdir.py file added to examples subdirectory.
- codify.py: Produce python/pydicom source code from a dicom file.
- a number of python 3 compatibility enhancements
- setup.py uses ez_setup only if setuptools not already installed
- exceptions carry tag info with them, to aid in debugging
Contrib file changes
- pydicom_series: force parameter added (Nil Goyette)
- dcm_qt_tree: switch to OrderedDict to preserve ordering of tags (Padraig Looney)
Other Contributors
Other than Jonathan and myself, other contributors were:
Rickard Holmberg, Julien Lamy, Yaroslav Halchenko, Mark White, Matthew Brett, Dimitri Papadopoulos, videan42 ...(sorry if I've missed anyone).