I'm experiencing the same problem as posted in this question, except that uart.STOPBITS_1 is defined and parity_NONE is not:
nodemcu uart undefined constants?
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uart=require("uart")
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=uart
table: 0x4028d530
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=print(uart.parity_NONE)
nil
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=uart.STOPBITS_1
1
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Current firmware
NodeMCU 3.0.0.0 built on nodemcu-build.com provided by frightanic.com
branch: release
commit: 136e09739b835d6dcdf04034141d70ab755468c6
release: 3.0.0-release_20210201
release DTS: 202102010145
SSL: true
build type: float
LFS: 0x0 bytes total capacity
modules: adc,bit,file,gpio,net,node,tmr,uart,wifi,tls
build 2021-03-17 08:20 powered by Lua 5.1.4 on SDK 3.0.1-dev(fce080e)
Test code:
uart=require("uart")
print(uart.STOPBITS_1)
print(uart.parity_NONE)
uart.setup(0, 19200, 8, uart.parity_NONE, uart.STOPBITS_1, 0)
Error: stdin:1: bad argument #4 to 'setup' (number expected, got nil)