Please introduce a simple way to entirely disable the “sniffer”
I am reading in a Csv file with one column which contains lots of codes, some of which include poorly dumped data formatted to scientific notation in error. My problem arises when pandas converts the data from ‘object’ to float and then into scientific notation despite the dtype setting being set to str.  

After searching for a while there doesn’t seem to be an easy surefire way to disable this formatting, especially if you can’t predict the row count to use in a converter. 

Why isn’t there a sniffer=off setting ? I don’t want any automatic type detection. Just dump it into the list as whatever dtype specified. 