CLONE - schemaInference option not to convert strings with leading zeros to int/long

df = (sqlc.read.format('csv')
              .option('inferSchema', True)
              .option('header', True)
              .option('delimiter', '|')
              .option('leadingZeros', 'KEEP')       # this is the new proposed option
              .option('mode', 'FAILFAST')
              .load('csvfile_withzipcodes_to_ingest.csv')
            )

The general usage of data with trailing 0 is for Identifiers. If they are converted to int/long defeats the purpose of inferSchema. The conversion should be provided on the basis of a flag whether the data should be converted to int/long or not.