将pandas dataframe列导入为字符串而不是int

I would like to import the following csv as strings not as int64. Pandas read_csv automatically converts it to int64, but I need this column as string.

ID
00013007854817840016671868
00013007854817840016749251
00013007854817840016754630
00013007854817840016781876
00013007854817840017028824
00013007854817840017963235
00013007854817840018860166


df = read_csv('sample.csv')

df.ID
>>

0   -9223372036854775808
1   -9223372036854775808
2   -9223372036854775808
3   -9223372036854775808
4   -9223372036854775808
5   -9223372036854775808
6   -9223372036854775808
Name: ID

Unfortunately using converters gives the same result.

df = read_csv('sample.csv', converters={'ID': str})
df.ID
>>

0   -9223372036854775808
1   -9223372036854775808
2   -9223372036854775808
3   -9223372036854775808
4   -9223372036854775808
5   -9223372036854775808
6   -9223372036854775808
Name: ID

Just want to reiterate this will work in pandas >= 0.9.1:

In [2]: read_csv('sample.csv', dtype={'ID': object})
Out[2]: 
                           ID
0  00013007854817840016671868
1  00013007854817840016749251
2  00013007854817840016754630
3  00013007854817840016781876
4  00013007854817840017028824
5  00013007854817840017963235
6  00013007854817840018860166

I’m creating an issue about detecting integer overflows also.

EDIT: See resolution here: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/2247

This probably isn’t the most elegant way to do it, but it gets the job done.

In[1]: import numpy as np

In[2]: import pandas as pd

In[3]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.genfromtxt('/Users/spencerlyon2/Desktop/test.csv', dtype=str)[1:], columns=['ID'])

In[4]: df
Out[4]: 
                       ID
0  00013007854817840016671868
1  00013007854817840016749251
2  00013007854817840016754630
3  00013007854817840016781876
4  00013007854817840017028824
5  00013007854817840017963235
6  00013007854817840018860166

Just replace '/Users/spencerlyon2/Desktop/test.csv' with the path to your file

Since pandas 1.0 it became much more straightforward. This will read column ‘ID’ as dtype ‘string’:

pd.read_csv('sample.csv',dtype={'ID':'string'})

As we can see in this Getting started guide, ‘string’ dtype has been introduced (before strings were treated as dtype ‘object’).