[Tutor] Parsing DICOMRT file

[bob gailer]

Bryan Fodness wrote:
> I am trying to parse a DICOMRT file, which is a radiation therapy 
> DICOM file. 
>  
> First, I get different outputs from the two methods below.
>  
> for line in file('file.dcm', 'rb'):
>     print line
>    
> inp = open('file.dcm', 'rb')
> print inp.readlines()
I agree. I'd expect that. Why does it surprise you? What did you expect?
>  
> Second, I have never tried to parse a binary file.  I could use a few 
> hints to get started.
Hint 1 - tell us what the fie format is and what you want from "parsing" it.

Most of us here are not acquainted with DICOM files.