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.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_plot_dicom_difference.py:


=======================================
Analyse differences between DICOM files
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This examples illustrates how to find the differences between two DICOM files.

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.. code-block:: Python


    # authors : Guillaume Lemaitre <g.lemaitre58@gmail.com>
    # license : MIT

    import difflib

    from pydicom import examples

    print(__doc__)

    # difflib compare functions require a list of lines, each terminated with
    # newline character massage the string representation of each dicom dataset
    # into this form:
    rep = []
    for ds in [examples.mr, examples.ct]:
        lines = str(ds).split("\n")
        lines = [line + "\n" for line in lines]  # add the newline to end
        rep.append(lines)


    diff = difflib.Differ()
    for line in diff.compare(rep[0], rep[1]):
        if line[0] != "?":
            print(line)


.. _sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_plot_dicom_difference.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: plot_dicom_difference.ipynb <plot_dicom_difference.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: plot_dicom_difference.py <plot_dicom_difference.py>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-zip

      :download:`Download zipped: plot_dicom_difference.zip <plot_dicom_difference.zip>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_
