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##### SUMMARY

Since https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57145, `elements=str` in Arguments_spec raises an error. We need to use elements="str" instead. I've done a workaround for VMware ( ansible-collections/vmware#235 ), but we may see more cases like that in the future. Is this an expected behaviour?

```python
        associable_object_types=dict(
            type='list',
             elements=str,
        ),
```

The error:


```
The full traceback is:
  File "/tmp/ansible_vmware_category_payload_w4g0m32x/ansible_vmware_category_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/basic.py", line 1775, in _handle_elements
    validated_params.append(type_checker(value, **kwargs))
fatal: [testhost]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "associable_object_types": [
                "Folder"
            ],
            "category_cardinality": "multiple",
            "category_description": "Folder",
            "category_name": "Folder",
            "hostname": "vcenter.test",
            "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "port": 443,
            "protocol": "https",
            "state": "present",
            "username": "administrator@vsphere.local",
            "validate_certs": false
        }
    },
    "msg": "Elements value for option associable_object_types is of type <class 'str'> and we were unable to convert to str: 'param' is an invalid keyword argument for str()"
}

```

##### ISSUE TYPE
- Bug Report

##### COMPONENT NAME

lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py

##### ANSIBLE VERSION
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```paste below
devel
```
cwd = to_bytes(os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(cwd)), errors='surrogate_or_strict')
            kwargs['cwd'] = cwd
            try:
                os.chdir(cwd)
            except (OSError, IOError) as e:
                self.fail_json(rc=e.errno, msg="Could not open %s, %s" % (cwd, to_native(e)),
                               exception=traceback.format_exc())
        old_umask = None
        if umask:
            old_umask = os.umask(umask)
        try:
            if self._debug:
                self.log('Executing: ' + self._clean_args(args))
            cmd = subprocess.Popen(args, **kwargs)
            if before_communicate_callback:
                before_communicate_callback(cmd)
            
            
            stdout = b''
            stderr = b''
            selector = selectors.DefaultSelector()
            selector.register(cmd.stdout, selectors.EVENT_READ)
            selector.register(cmd.stderr, selectors.EVENT_READ)
            if os.name == 'posix':
                fcntl.fcntl(cmd.stdout.fileno(), fcntl.F_SETFL, fcntl.fcntl(cmd.stdout.fileno(), fcntl.F_GETFL) | os.O_NONBLOCK)
                fcntl.fcntl(cmd.stderr.fileno(), fcntl.F_SETFL, fcntl.fcntl(cmd.stderr.fileno(), fcntl.F_GETFL) | os.O_NONBLOCK)
            if data:
                if not binary_data:
                    data += '\n'
                if isinstance(data, text_type):