pyserial response unicodeDecodeError

Question

import serial
s = serial.Serial(port = 'Com3', 9600, timeout = 2) 
data = s.readline().decode().rstrip("\r\n")

So basically when I try to read the data I get the error.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfb in position 20: invalid start byte

From the documentation of the instrument I am trying to communicate with. the data is in the form: ..ss3422/34/54--1.8E+03<,>…..0.7E+03<,...1.71E-09<,<√.<*.<

Answer 1

I was able to fix the problem by changing to encoding = "ISO-8859-1".