Import pandas dataframe column as string not int

The below code works for the version 0.9.1 and up:

In [2]: read_csv('sample.csv', dtype={'ID': object})
Out[2]:
                          ID
0 00013007854817840016671868
1 00013007854817840016749251
2 00013007854817840016754630
3 00013007854817840016781876
4 00013007854817840017028824
5 00013007854817840017963235
6 00013007854817840018860166

Refer https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/2247.