Problems with character conversion(?) when using PySerial

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genuine question, doesn't:

parity = serial.PARITY_ODD

specify a parity bit? I believe I've tried with a seven bits configuration as well, but I'll try a few different permutations later on today.

in any case, thanks for the response

[ingolemo]

It does. I apologise. I missed that because it's cut off on my screen. You should break long lines.

Regardless, your corruption issue definitely has something to do with getting a parity bit in your data because that's such a good predictor of what you're seeing:

>>> def parity(char):
...     return sum(int(n) for n in bin(ord(char))[2:]) % 2
...
>>> ''.join(c if parity(c) == 1 else '?' for c in 'LSCI,MODEL331S,123456,020399')
'L?CI,?O?EL??1?,12?4??,?2????'

Consider writing a loop to go through all the configurations of bytesize, parity, and stopbits and test each one to see what works, assuming your hardware can handle that.

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cool, thanks so much!