'ascii' codec can't decode byte #4
Description
I'm using ROS-Melodic.
When running the serial_odom.py script in ROS, it's giving the following output:
vm: $rosrun serial_odom serial_odom.py _port:=/dev/ttyACM0
[INFO] [1615798346.197255]: Serial odometry starting
[INFO] [1615798346.204596]: Publishing odometry: odom
[INFO] [1615798346.207512]: Publishing transform from odom to base_link
[INFO] [1615798346.209393]: Starting on serial port: /dev/ttyACM0
[INFO] [1615798347.170208]: Reaching for serial
[INFO] [1615798347.171422]: Here are the first 5 data readings ...
Exception in thread Thread-8:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File "/home/vm/URDFs/src/Simple-ROS-Arduino-odometry/script/v0.3/serial_odom.py", line 95, in serial_handle
rospy.loginfo( init_msg.encode('ascii')[0:(len(init_msg)-1)] )
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xbf in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
^CShutting down
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance.