BUG: Fix Index.equals between object and string #24389

Job	Run time
python-dev	0s
Linux-32-bit	18m 51s
Linux-Musl	15m 57s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	25m 36s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	30m 37s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	39m 52s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	45m 4s
macos-14 actions-313.yaml	17m 47s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	38m 45s
windows-latest actions-313.yaml	44m 47s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	37m 33s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	29m 54s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	26m 12s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	32m 37s
macos-13 actions-313.yaml	38m 18s
Pyodide build	23m 30s
ubuntu-24.04 actions-311.yaml	43m 29s
Pyarrow Nightly	21m 29s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	38m 4s
ubuntu-24.04 actions-313.yaml	49m 42s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-313.yaml	35m 32s
Minimum Versions	23m 48s
Downstream Compat	6m 42s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	38m 37s
Freethreading	20m 56s
Numpy Dev	17m 4s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	35m 52s
ubuntu-24.04 actions-312.yaml	45m 9s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-311.yaml	35m 32s
ubuntu-24.04 actions-310.yaml	48m 37s
Locale: zh_CN	24m 7s
Future infer strings	45m 0s
Locale: it_IT	24m 27s
	16h 59m 27s

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