BUG: DataFrame.explode fails with str dtype #23995

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macos-14 actions-313.yaml	22m 29s
windows-latest actions-313.yaml	44m 8s
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Pypy	1m 36s
Freethreading	21m 11s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	40m 27s
Numpy Dev	17m 9s
ubuntu-24.04 actions-313.yaml	48m 35s
Locale: zh_CN	24m 29s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	36m 19s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	36m 10s
Locale: it_IT	24m 23s
Future infer strings	44m 34s
Pyarrow Nightly	20m 21s
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