Strings with Value Representation DS are too long #1264
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Describe the bug
Strings of Value Representation DS are restricted to a maximum length of 16 bytes according to Part 5 Section 6.2, but pydicom.valuerep.DS
may represent numbers with more than 16 bytes.
Expected behavior
pydicom.valuerep.DS
should create a string of maximum length 16, when passed a fixed point number with many decimals.
Steps To Reproduce
len(str(pydicom.valuerep.DS(3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097)).encode('utf-8'))
len(str(pydicom.valuerep.DS("3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097")).encode('utf-8'))
returns 17
and 58
, respectively, instead of 16
.
Your environment
module | version
------ | -------
platform | macOS-10.15.6-x86_64-i386-64bit
Python | 3.8.6 (default, Oct 8 2020, 14:06:32) [Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.2)]
pydicom | 2.0.0
gdcm | _module not found_
jpeg_ls | _module not found_
numpy | 1.19.4
PIL | 8.0.1
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