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Description
Describe the issue:
#24679 appears to have accidentially removed dtype aliases that used to work
Reproduce the code example:
In [1]: import numpy as np
In [2]: np.__version__
Out[2]: '1.24.4'
In [3]: np.dtype("unicode")
Out[3]: dtype('<U')
In [4]: np.dtype("a1")
Out[4]: dtype('S1')
>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.dtype("unicode")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: data type 'unicode' not understood
>>> np.dtype("a1")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: data type 'a1' not understood
>>> np.__version__
'2.0.0.dev0+git20231007.040ed2d'Error message:
No response
Runtime information:
>>> np.__version__
'2.0.0.dev0+git20231007.040ed2d'Context for the issue:
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