[Pythonmac-SIG] Restrictions on what you can do in a Python module?

[Robb Brown]

I thought you might be interested...  dctk is a DICOM (medical image 
file format / network protocol for those not in the know) toolkit -- 
file read and write as well as network connectivity.  My idea is to 
wrap the basic functions in Python and then writing DICOM enabled apps 
is no problem.  Plus, I'm frequently annoyed by our expensive research 
PACS (a medical image archiving server)... a good Python DICOM package 
and existing Python database modules would let you write your own PACS 
in an afternoon.

If it works I'm sure there would be a lot of interest... we've been 
considering the MERGE toolkit which is several thousand dollars a seat 
and is only C++.


On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:15 PM, Yves Starreveld wrote:

> Hi, Robb,
>
> That stuff sounds like it would be of fairly general interest....
>
> What kind of thing are you putting together? We are stringing 
> something together using php at this time.
>
> Yves
> On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Robb Brown wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to write wrappers for dcmtk (a toolkit for the medical 
>> imaging DICOM standard).  At the moment I have three functions, to 
>> open an association (basically a network connection), close it, and 
>> send an echo request (like a ping).  A test program written entirely 
>> in C works fine but when compiled as a module and called from Python 
>> I get an illegal instruction when the dcmtk function to actually open 
>> the association is called.  I believe this function is simply opening 
>> a socket, connecting to a server and negotiating what flavour of the 
>> protocol to use.
>>
>> Are there things that simply can't be done in a Python module?  What 
>> exactly is an illegal instruction?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Robb
>>
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