ENH: Add dtype argument to str.decode #21996

Job	Run time
Pyodide build	55s
Linux-32-bit	53s
Linux-Musl	55s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	56s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	57s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	55s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	58s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	58s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	54s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	1m 1s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	57s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	54s
python-freethreading	1m 1s
python-dev (macOS-13)	1m 9s
python-dev (macOS-14)	1m 8s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	1m 7s
python-dev (windows-latest)	59s
Minimum Versions	56s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	55s
Locale: zh_CN	56s
Locale: it_IT	55s
Downstream Compat	56s
Numpy Dev	54s
Future infer strings	56s
Pyarrow Nightly	54s
Pypy	56s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-310.yaml	55s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-312.yaml	57s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-311.yaml	55s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-311.yaml	56s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	56s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	55s
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