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There are two cases we need an answer for before merging this. One, as I just posted in #29710

looking at doing this, the main problem is .decode. For everything else we can tell users to do obj.astype("str").str, but if you have bytes to start out with, that doesn't work. Unless we assume pyarrow is available and then can tell users to do .astype("bytes[pyarrow]").str.decode

The other is when you can't cast to "str" bc you have funky entries, like in test_to_hdf_errors data = ["\ud800foo"].

@simonjayhawkins simonjayhawkins added Strings String extension data type and string data Deprecate Functionality to remove in pandas labels Sep 10, 2025
@jbrockmendel jbrockmendel added the Mothballed Temporarily-closed PR the author plans to return to label Sep 25, 2025
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Mothballing.

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DEPR: Deprecate .str accessor on object-dtype.

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