BUG: Impossible creation of array with dtype=string #23258

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python-freethreading	21m 59s
Pyodide build	23m 47s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	56m 0s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	48m 32s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	21m 12s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	54m 38s
macos-13 actions-313.yaml	1h 0m 35s
macos-14 actions-313.yaml	20m 34s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	1h 11m 37s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	1h 13m 38s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	31m 27s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	1h 14m 13s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	22m 51s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-311.yaml	54m 18s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-313.yaml	56m 29s
windows-latest actions-313.yaml	1h 20m 39s
Locale: it_IT	1h 0m 26s
Numpy Dev	16m 50s
Locale: zh_CN	1h 1m 20s
Pyarrow Nightly	20m 5s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-312.yaml	1h 21m 14s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-313.yaml	1h 26m 28s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	57m 52s
Minimum Versions	46m 38s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-310.yaml	1h 27m 12s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	1h 16m 40s
Pypy	1m 55s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-311.yaml	1h 19m 36s
Downstream Compat	6m 49s
Future infer strings	1h 24m 2s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	57m 34s
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