Developer guide

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Environment and dependencies

A working Python environment is required to run dbdicom. All required Python dependencies are specified within the requirements.txt and pyproject.toml files located within the root directory of the dbdicom source code.

When integrating dbdicom within a custom project, conda virtual environments can be useful for managing project dependencies in isolation. Anaconda may be installed within the user’s directory without causing conflicts with a system’s Python installation, therefore it is recommended to set up a working environment by downloading the conda package manager from Anaconda’s Python distribution.

Warning

The following steps assume that Anaconda has already been installed and that commands are run from a Windows OS. If replicating from a different OS, please adapt commands to the appropriate related invocation (Some examples here).

Project setup and installation

1. From the project root directory, run the following command to create a separate virtual environment:

conda create --name <environment_name> python=<version_number>

1. Activate the virtual environment:

conda activate <environment_name>

1. Install required dbdicom dependencies:

pip install -e .

1. Install dbdicom with optional dependencies specified in pyproject.toml file (e.g., wrappers):

pip install -e .[wrappers]