Summary

Fix the stdlib stub for _codecs.escape_decode so it returns tuple[bytes, int] instead of tuple[str, int].

Also add regression coverage in stdlib/@tests/test_cases/check_codecs.py to verify the inferred return type for codecs.escape_decode.

Details

Python's docs describe codecs.escape_decode as returning bytes, and CPython runtime behavior matches that. The old stub returned str, which then propagated
to codecs.escape_decode because codecs.pyi re-exports _codecs.

I kept the input type as str | ReadableBuffer rather than narrowing it to bytes-like only, because current CPython still accepts str input at runtime and
returns (bytes, int).

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