Kevin Markham on Twitter: "According to the @pandas_dev development docs, pandas 1.0 will include a dedicated string data type! 🎉🎉🎉 This should reduce confusion about whether an "object" column contains strings (and
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Empty cells make Padas use float, even if read_csv(dtype={'FOO': str}) is used · Issue #17810 · pandas-dev/pandas · GitHub
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