BUG: DataFrame.explode fails with str dtype #23967

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macos-13 actions-311.yaml	30m 3s
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macos-14 actions-310.yaml	25m 55s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	40m 12s
macos-13 actions-313.yaml	33m 55s
Pyarrow Nightly	20m 22s
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Freethreading	20m 37s
Future infer strings	45m 5s
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Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	39m 20s
Minimum Versions	23m 4s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-313.yaml	35m 20s
ubuntu-24.04 actions-311.yaml	42m 3s
Locale: zh_CN	23m 48s
Locale: it_IT	23m 56s
Numpy Dev	17m 6s
Pypy	1m 28s
Downstream Compat	5m 22s
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