[Insight-users] status of GDCM and python

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Richard Beare wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to develop some tools to manipulate dicom slices using
> python. I can't seem to find any binding to the GDCM stuff. As far as
> I can tell the GDCM library is the way to access meta data in dicom
> files. Am I missing something here?

gdcm itself (retrieve from the official cvs or the tarball) offer a full 
python wrapping letting dev or user full access to the API.
But if you are looking for just the ITK level then wrap ITK in python 
and you are done.

HTH
Mathieu
Ps: gdcm uses swig for its python wrapping.