ENH: Add dtype argument to str.decode #22031

Job	Run time
Pyodide build	23m 8s
Linux-32-bit	18m 16s
Linux-Musl	16m 37s
python-freethreading	23m 24s
python-dev (macOS-13)	17m 54s
python-dev (macOS-14)	11m 17s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	20m 12s
python-dev (windows-latest)	24m 12s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	25m 30s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	27m 30s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	32m 46s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	22m 56s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	20m 16s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	19m 31s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	36m 28s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	49m 29s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	36m 24s
Minimum Versions	23m 49s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	40m 19s
Locale: zh_CN	23m 31s
Locale: it_IT	23m 32s
Downstream Compat	6m 3s
Numpy Dev	17m 22s
Pyarrow Nightly	21m 0s
Future infer strings	49m 31s
Pypy	1m 31s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-310.yaml	46m 53s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-311.yaml	43m 52s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-312.yaml	48m 30s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-311.yaml	37m 36s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	46m 10s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	44m 23s
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