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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
```
args = [to_bytes(x, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for x in args if x is not None]
        prompt_re = None
        if prompt_regex:
            if isinstance(prompt_regex, text_type):
                if PY3:
                    prompt_regex = to_bytes(prompt_regex, errors='surrogateescape')
                elif PY2:
                    prompt_regex = to_bytes(prompt_regex, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
            try:
                prompt_re = re.compile(prompt_regex, re.MULTILINE)
            except re.error:
                self.fail_json(msg="invalid prompt regular expression given to run_command")
        rc = 0
        msg = None
        st_in = None
        
        old_env_vals = {}
        
        for key, val in self.run_command_environ_update.items():
            old_env_vals[key] = os.environ.get(key, None)
            os.environ[key] = val
        if environ_update:
            for key, val in environ_update.items():
                old_env_vals[key] = os.environ.get(key, None)
                os.environ[key] = val
        if path_prefix:
            old_env_vals['PATH'] = os.environ['PATH']
            os.environ['PATH'] = "%s:%s" % (path_prefix, os.environ['PATH'])