code: def _dtype_pandas_compatible(dtype):
      """
      A utility function, that returns `str` instead of `object`
      dtype when pandas comptibility mode is enabled.
      """
      if cudf.get_option(
          "mode.pandas_compatible"
      ) and dtype == cudf.dtype("O"):
          return "str"
      return dtype
  
imports: import datetime
  from collections import namedtuple
  from decimal import Decimal
  import cupy
  import numpy
  import pandas
  import pyarrow
  from pandas.core.dtypes.common import infer_dtype_from_object
  import cudf
  from cudf._typing import DtypeObj
  from cudf.api.types import is_bool, is_float, is_integer
label_desc: Use image node_id 21 for calling a global function with example usage: _dtype_pandas_compatible(dtype) and returns: dtype, str