pandas.read_csv() interprets TRUE as boolean, I need a string

Question

I'm reading stock tickers from comma delimited file using pandas.read_csv(). One of the tickers is TRUE, so pandas reader interprets it as a boolean, and fails, since it needs a string to retrieve prices. How can I force TRUE into a string?

Answer 1

Specify the dtype of the desired column in the read_csv method call:

pd.read_csv('weirdly_formatted_csv.csv', dtype={'weird_column': str})