python serial port communication

Question

Here is my code for serial port communication

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.animation as animation
from matplotlib import style


import serial
MCU = serial.Serial('COM35', 115200, timeout=.1)


import time
time.sleep(1) #give the connection a second to settle

while True:
     data = MCU.readline()
print(str(data))

but i'm getting in the output as

b'\\x0b\\x16 )6\\x06\\x07\\x08X\\x02\\x16,' (it's Hex+Ascii value)

and this is my input data

uint8_t myBuf[]={11,22,32,41,54,6,7,8,88,2,22,44};

any one know what i'm doing wrong here?

Answer 1

What format do you want your output in? As you suggest, what you have is the correct data but in byte format. For example you could get it as a list of python ints as follows (Python 3):

>>> list(data)
[11, 22, 32, 41, 54, 6, 7, 8, 88, 2, 22, 44]

The struct module may also be useful for you in decoding byte data.

(I can't leave a comment, sorry.)

Answer 2

When you wrote str(data) you requested python to tranlsate the binary data to a readable string (In a readable fromat).

Since there is no readable representation to most of the bytes python just translates them into their hex representation (as a string).

If you want to print them as a list just: list(data).

Answer 3

Maybe it will be good idea to try to decode it?

just as idea

while ser.isOpen():
    for s in ser.read():
        s = ser.readline().decode('utf-8') #reading data from the port with decoding from UTF-8
        com = str(s).replace('\n','') #cutting out second pass to the new line
        print(s)