pandas converters example
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pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(t), dtype={'int':'object'}, parse_dates=['date']).info()
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
Int64Index: 1 entries, 0 to 0
Data columns (total 4 columns):
int 1 non-null object
float 1 non-null float64
date 1 non-null datetime64[ns]
str 1 non-null int64
dtypes: datetime64[ns](1), float64(1), int64(1), object(1)
memory usage: 40.0+ bytes