How to log USB sensor data in rospy?

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I use the following bash script to establish a connection to a device and print strings of data read by it to the terminal. However, I'd like to be able to publish this data to a ROS topic and so I've attempted to write a node in rospy to do the equivalent of the bash script.

Bash Script:

#!/bin/bash

sudo -i <<-EOF
rmmod ftdi_sio
rmmod usbserial
modprobe ftdi-sio
echo -n VENDOR_ID PRODUCT_ID | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/ftdi_sio/new_id
stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 9600 cs8 -cstopb -parenb
echo -e "SOME_STRING" > /dev/ttyUSB0
apt install screen
script /dev/null
screen /dev/ttyUSB0
EOF

rospy node:

#!/usr/bin/python3

import rospy
from std_msgs.msg import Int16
import serial
import subprocess
import os


def log_data():

    pub = rospy.Publisher('data', Int16, queue_size=1)
    rate = rospy.Rate(1.5)

    while not rospy.is_shutdown():

        data = Int16()

        os.system("[ -d ""/dev/ttyUSB0"" ] && sudo chmod -R 777 /dev/ttyUSB0")
        os.system("sudo chmod -R 777 /dev/ttyUSB0")

        subprocess.run(["sudo", "-i",
                        """rmmod ftdi_sio""",
                        """rmmod usbserial""",
                        """modprobe ftdi-sio""",
                        """echo -n VENDOR_ID PRODUCT_ID | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/ftdi_sio/new_id"""])

        serial_port = serial.Serial(port='/dev/ttyUSB0',
                                    baudrate=9600,
                                    bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS,
                                    stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE,
                                    parity=serial.PARITY_NONE)

        serial_port.write("SOME_STRING")
        data.data = serial_port.read()
        serial_port.close()
        rospy.loginfo("Data String: " + str(data.data))
        pub.publish(data)
        rate.sleep()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        rospy.init_node('data_logger', anonymous=True)
        log_data()
    except rospy.ROSInterruptException:
        pass

The output I print to terminal from the rospy node is a stream of lines like [INFO] [1621344997.745772]: Data String: b'\r' and not the expected string of data values, which should have a format similar to A: XXXXX, B: XXXXX. When I print the serial_port I get this output:

Serial<id=0x7fb9850d2970, open=True>(port='/dev/ttyUSB0', baudrate=9600, bytesize=8, parity='N', stopbits=1, timeout=None, xonxoff=False, rtscts=False, dsrdtr=False)

Can anyone point out where I'm going wrong? I'm particularly unsure whether I have set my device to be accessible correctly from ttyUSB0 in the subprocess.run([... ...]) commands. Any ideas?