Decoding a serial stream

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b’\t\x9c\x1d\xc8LX\t\xfdXh\t\xbf\x1e\x8a^X{|\xbe\x85’ is a bytearray. When you print a bytearray it displays ascii characters when possible, or it uses hexadecimal notation. (\x). Since you are seeing \x in your byte array, it means that the bytearray data is either numbers or Unicode.

If you want to see the bytes as hex values you can do this:

import binascii

x = b'\t\x9c\x1d\xc8LX\t\xfdXh\t\xbf\x1e\x8a^X{|\xbe\x85'
print(binascii.hexlify(x))

Output:
b'099c1dc84c5809fd586809bf1e8a5e587b7cbe85'

If you want to convert it to a Unicode string use .decode().