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Posted: **Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:08 pm**

Hello,
I need to catch a terminator \r in data I receive from UART and I've got this code:
[code]
data = ""
while True:

bytes = uart.read()
if bytes is not None:
idx = str(bytes).find("'", 2)
data += str(bytes)[2:idx]
print(data[len(data)-2:])
if data.find("\r") != -1:
print("Here\r\n")
[/code]
But data.find("\r") always returns -1 even when data contains \r. How to solve this problem?

Posted: **Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:05 am**

I suspect that you're being tripped up by the difference between strings and bytestrings.

The UART returns bytestrings, so you should be searching for b'\r'

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MicroPython v1.8.7-201-ga34ff35 on 2017-02-07; linux version
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>>> data = b'abc\rdef'
>>> data.find('\r')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can't convert 'str' object to str implicitly
>>> data.find(b'\r')
3

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