ENH: Add dtype argument to str.decode #21999

Job	Run time
Pyodide build	23m 20s
Linux-32-bit	18m 12s
Linux-Musl	16m 14s
python-freethreading	21m 42s
python-dev (macOS-13)	21m 27s
python-dev (macOS-14)	10m 9s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	20m 37s
python-dev (windows-latest)	22m 26s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	20m 48s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	35m 10s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	35m 7s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	44m 12s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	17m 16s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	21m 25s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	44m 4s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	56m 7s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	45m 47s
Minimum Versions	23m 20s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	50m 17s
Locale: zh_CN	32m 53s
Locale: it_IT	32m 56s
Numpy Dev	16m 57s
Pyarrow Nightly	20m 17s
Downstream Compat	5m 45s
Future infer strings	49m 33s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-310.yaml	47m 17s
Pypy	1m 33s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-312.yaml	49m 26s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-311.yaml	53m 36s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-311.yaml	38m 39s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	42m 1s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	46m 11s
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