HL7 Tersely Library

Description

These library parse HL7 messages and produces dictionaries. It's easy to use and straightforward.

Install

Install from pypi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi)

pip install hl7tersely

or with easy_install

easy_install hl7tersely

Start playing

# load HL7 data into hl7message

>>> from hl7tersely import HL7Parser
>>> hl7p = HL7Parser()
>>> myhl7dict = hl7p.parse(hl7message)
>>> len(myhl7dict.keys())
86

>>> for key, values in myhl7dict.items():
...    print(key, values)

OBR[1]-02-01 12345678
OBR[1]-02-02 gastric
PV1[1]-18 12345
SPM[3]-17 200309060815


>>> "MSH-4" in myhl7dict
False

Tested with Python 2.6, Python 2.7 and Python 3.2

MIT Licensed