[API Compatibility] Enhance several tensor creation methods (#74477)

* fix index_elemwentwise_get_gard bug slice-check

* enhance Tensor creation methods

* add static test

* fix UT

* fix  date

* refine code

* fix

* fix UT

* fix

* fix BatchNormDoubleGradKernel

* restore code

* fix

* fix

* fix

* fix for review

* restore requires_grad setting

* fix name

* use full instead of fill_constant

* refine device

* fix

* fix string device

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Co-authored-by: zhanghonggeng <[email protected]>

Author: HydrogenSulfate

python/paddle/device/__init__.py

@@ -217,7 +217,10 @@ def get_cudnn_version() -> int | None:
         return _cudnn_version
 
 
-def _convert_to_place(device: str) -> PlaceLike:
+def _convert_to_place(device: PlaceLike) -> PlaceLike:
+    if not isinstance(device, str):
+        return device  # return directly if not a string
+
     lower_device = device.lower()
     if device in core.get_all_custom_device_type():
         selected_devices = os.getenv(f"FLAGS_selected_{device}s", "0").split(