Issue 152 in pydicom: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'F'

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New issue 152 by juanprie...@gmail.com: ValueError: invalid literal for
int() with base 10: 'F'
https://code.google.com/p/pydicom/issues/detail?id=152

What steps will reproduce the problem?

import sys
import dicom
import dicom_dao
import json

filename = sys.argv[1]

try:
dcmfile = dicom.read_file(<file in attachement>, force=True )
except:
print "DICOM not readable"
raise

dicomJson = dicom_dao.pydicom2json(dcmfile)
jsdmp = json.dumps(dicomJson[0])

print jsdmp

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The expected output is the json document for the dicom header of the file

What version of the product are you using?
pydicom-0.9.8

Additional information including the trace of the error.

dcm.remove_private_tags() # No support for now
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dicom/dataset.py", line 459, in
remove_private_tags
self.walk(RemoveCallback)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dicom/dataset.py", line 568, in
walk
data_element = self[tag]
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dicom/dataset.py", line 285, in
__getitem__
self[tag] = DataElement_from_raw(data_elem, character_set)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dicom/dataelem.py", line 338, in
DataElement_from_raw
value = convert_value(VR, raw, encoding)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dicom/values.py", line 193, in
convert_value
value = converter(byte_string, is_little_endian, num_format)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dicom/values.py", line 66, in
convert_IS_string
return MultiString(byte_string, valtype=dicom.valuerep.IS)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dicom/valuerep.py", line 212, in
MultiString
return valtype(val) if val else val
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dicom/valuerep.py", line 172, in
__new__
newval = super(IS, cls).__new__(cls, val)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'F'

Attachments:
IM-0002-0010-0001.dcm 522 KB

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Comment #1 on issue 152 by juanprie...@gmail.com: ValueError: invalid

literal for int() with base 10: 'F'
https://code.google.com/p/pydicom/issues/detail?id=152

This is a temporary workaround

https://code.google.com/r/juanprietob-pydicom/source/detail?r=a1a734ff4e21dd66bdb9db6acda7659069e0c972