pydicom 0.9.8

[Darcy Mason]

I'm please to announce that the official release for pydicom 0.9.8 is available for download [1] or pip/easy_install.  Please review the release notes [2] for details.

Pydicom 0.9.8 has unofficial support for python 3. See the release notes for instructions to activate it. We're very interested in getting feedback about how the python 3 compatibility is working.

Thanks again to Jonathan Suever, who really pushed through the changes and testing needed for python 3.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/downloads/

[2] http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/wiki/ReleaseNotes

[Félix C. Morency]

Congratulation!! Keep up the good work folks!!

-F

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[Satrajit Ghosh]

congratulations!

cheers,

satra

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Darcy Mason <darcy...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Jonathan Suever]

Thanks a ton Darcy for getting this release together!

As mentioned, it has unofficial support for python 3. This means a few things. 

- It's currently passing all of the unit tests in python 3 that we have written but that doesn't means that it is bug-free. I would encourage sticking to python 2 for important applications until 3 is officially supported.

- If you make use of any of the more "internal" portions of the library (such as creating Datasets or DataElements from scratch, etc.), we are still in the process of refactoring a little bit so there may be some changes to functions and classes.

- If you haven't dealt with Python 3 before and you try to use pydicom in python3, your code will most likely break at some point due to bytes and str literals. In pydicom, we use str most of the time, unless the VR is a raw byte string (i.e. PixelData).

As Darcy mentioned, your feedback is very valuable at this point. Please utilize the mailing lists and submit detailed bug reports (complete with anonymized offending images) if relevant. 

-Jonathan