read_html leading zero problem

[Matt2520]

Hi, new to python and pandas, but am trying to work with information off the web that has serial numbers. Many of the numbers have leading zeros which that are important to carry over, but pandas interprets the values as integers and drops the zero. I was trying to change the dtype to str but read_html doesn't have a dtype argument, and it seems like infer_types = False is depricated (or at least I get an exception for unexpected keyword argument). What is the best way to get these zeros back?

[jreback]

dupe of #10534

we are not passing thru the dtype argument to enable this.

you can certainly do this on post processing if you wanted. by doing an astype(object)