Pandas read_csv dtype leading zeros

Question

So I\'m reading in a station codes csv file from NOAA which looks like this:

\"USAF\",\"WBAN\",\"STATION NAME\",\"CTRY\",\"FIPS\",\"STATE\",\"CALL\",\"LAT\",         


        

Answer 1

You can pass a dictionary of functions to converters where the keys are numeric column indices. So, if you don't know what your column names will be, you can do this (provided you have less than 100 columns).

pd.read_csv('some_file.csv', converters={i: str for i in range(100)})