pynetdicom.dsutils.encode¶
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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) orNone
if the encoding failed.- Return type
bytes or None