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

[Paul Miller]

>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.

Do you know what the protocols are and how they work? If so, why not just 
reimplement them directly in Python, and skip the library entirely?


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