pydicom.values.convert_UI¶
- pydicom.values.convert_UI(byte_string: bytes, is_little_endian: bool, struct_format: Optional[str] = None) Union[pydicom.uid.UID, MutableSequence[pydicom.uid.UID]] ¶
Return a decoded ‘UI’ value.
Elements with VR of ‘UI’ may have a non-significant trailing null
0x00
.- Parameters
byte_string (bytes) – The encoded ‘UI’ element value.
is_little_endian (bool) –
True
if the value is encoded as little endian,False
otherwise.struct_format (str, optional) – Not used.
- Returns
The decoded ‘UI’ element value without trailing nulls or spaces.
- Return type
uid.UID or list of uid.UID