[Python] Issue with reading a csv file with all columns as string using polars

I have below python code using polars and I do not want python to auto parse values as dates or integers unless explicitly stated. schema_overrides doesn't prevent auto conversion either.


# Read the CSV file with all columns as strings using schema_overrides
file_path = "./xyz.csv"
df = pl.read_csv(file_path, schema_overrides={'*': pl.Utf8})

# Display the DataFrame
print(df)


I get below error: polars.exceptions.ComputeError: could not parse p35038 as dtype i64 at column 'Employee ID' (column number 3)

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