BUG: Impossible creation of array with dtype=string #22842

Job	Run time
Linux-32-bit	18m 29s
Linux-Musl	16m 34s
python-dev (macOS-13)	30m 47s
python-dev (macOS-14)	9m 29s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	20m 54s
python-dev (windows-latest)	22m 5s
Pyodide build	23m 23s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	43m 4s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	27m 11s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	17m 11s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	30m 27s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	16m 10s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	17m 4s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	48m 48s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	36m 34s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	38m 7s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	41m 56s
Minimum Versions	24m 25s
python-freethreading	22m 45s
Locale: it_IT	24m 3s
Locale: zh_CN	24m 13s
Numpy Dev	17m 0s
Future infer strings	50m 12s
Pyarrow Nightly	20m 18s
Downstream Compat	5m 50s
Pypy	1m 29s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-311.yaml	43m 39s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-310.yaml	48m 19s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-312.yaml	47m 49s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-311.yaml	27m 46s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	27m 26s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	31m 4s
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