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I have quoted strings, that are not numeric (serial numbers) being converted to stings (i.e. '001005' --> 1005.0) in pandas.read_csv. Is there any workaround, until a fix is available?

When I inspect the dtypes, Athena int s are converted to pandas int s, decimals are converted to floats and string s are consistently returned as object dtypes. However Athena string NULL s are cast ...