How to get pandas.read_csv not to perform any conversions?

Question

For example, the values in \'/tmp/test.csv\' (namely, 01, 02, 03) are meant to represent strings that happen to match /

Answer 1

df = pd.read_csv('temp.csv', dtype=str)

From the docs:

dtype : Type name or dict of column -> type, default None
Data type for data or columns. E.g. {‘a’: np.float64, ‘b’: np.int32} (Unsupported with engine=’python’). Use str or object to preserve and not interpret dtype.