From ee2d377dba883564e2d30a611b5893b663b0a3d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Shadrach <45562402+rhshadrach@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:18:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify condition

---
 pandas/core/strings/accessor.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
index 6fb7207f45ea8..449a492557fa2 100644
--- a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
+++ b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
@@ -2149,7 +2149,6 @@ def decode(
         if (
             dtype is not None
             and not is_string_dtype(dtype)
-            and not is_object_dtype(dtype)
         ):
             raise ValueError(f"dtype must be string or object, got {dtype=}")
         if dtype is None and get_option("future.infer_string"):