Re: Strange extra f added to bytes object

2013-10-06 Thread Robert Jackson
Thank you all. It was unfortunate that it was f since I thought it was some strange mistaken hex nibble. All very clear and helpful. On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 20:39:39 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote: > > >

Strange extra f added to bytes object

2013-10-06 Thread Robert Jackson
I am very new to python so I'll apologize up front if this is some boneheaded thing. I am using python and pyserial to talk to an embedded pic processor in a piece of scientific equipment. I sometimes find the when I construct the bytes object to write it adds an extra f to the first byte. For e