diff --git a/stdlib/2/ConfigParser.pyi b/stdlib/2/ConfigParser.pyi
index 5fdf38020..ae6915e8d 100644
--- a/stdlib/2/ConfigParser.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2/ConfigParser.pyi
@@ -14,30 +14,25 @@ class Error(Exception):
 
 class NoSectionError(Error):
     section = ... # type: str
-    args = ... # type: Tuple[str]
     def __init__(self, section: str) -> None: ...
 
 class DuplicateSectionError(Error):
     section = ... # type: str
-    args = ... # type: Tuple[str]
     def __init__(self, section: str) -> None: ...
 
 class NoOptionError(Error):
     section = ... # type: str
     option = ... # type: str
-    args = ... # type: Tuple[str,str]
     def __init__(self, option: str, section: str) -> None: ...
 
 class InterpolationError(Error):
     section = ... # type: str
     option = ... # type: str
     msg = ... # type: str
-    args = ... # type: Tuple[str,str,str]
     def __init__(self, option: str, section: str, msg: str) -> None: ...
 
 class InterpolationMissingOptionError(InterpolationError):
     reference = ... # type: str
-    args = ... # type: Tuple[str,str,str,str]
     def __init__(self, option: str, section: str, rawval: str, reference: str) -> None: ...
 
 class InterpolationSyntaxError(InterpolationError): ...
@@ -48,14 +43,12 @@ class InterpolationDepthError(InterpolationError):
 class ParsingError(Error):
     filename = ... # type: str
     errors = ... # type: list[Tuple[Any,Any]]
-    args = ... # type: Tuple[str]
     def __init__(self, filename: str) -> None: ...
     def append(self, lineno: Any, line: Any) -> None: ...
 
 class MissingSectionHeaderError(ParsingError):
     lineno = ... # type: Any
     line = ... # type: Any
-    args = ... # type: Tuple[str,Any,Any]
     def __init__(self, filename: str, lineno: Any, line: Any) -> None: ...
 
 
diff --git a/stdlib/2/__builtin__.pyi b/stdlib/2/__builtin__.pyi
index 7e32e1163..bedc1c480 100644
--- a/stdlib/2/__builtin__.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2/__builtin__.pyi
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ class memoryview(Sized, Container[bytes]):
     def tolist(self) -> List[int]: ...
 
 class BaseException:
-    args = ...  # type: Any
+    args = ...  # type: Tuple[Any, ...]
     message = ...  # type: str
     def __init__(self, *args: Any) -> None: ...
     def with_traceback(self, tb: Any) -> BaseException: ...
diff --git a/stdlib/2/exceptions.pyi b/stdlib/2/exceptions.pyi
index 1f29e909a..9b00e34a6 100644
--- a/stdlib/2/exceptions.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2/exceptions.pyi
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-from typing import Any, List, Optional
+from typing import Any, Tuple, Optional
 
 class StandardError(Exception): ...
 class ArithmeticError(StandardError): ...
 class AssertionError(StandardError): ...
 class AttributeError(StandardError): ...
 class BaseException(object):
-    args = ...  # type: List[Any]
+    args = ...  # type: Tuple[Any, ...]
     message = ...  # type: str
     def __getslice__(self, start, end) -> Any: ...
     def __getitem__(self, start, end) -> Any: ...
diff --git a/stdlib/3/builtins.pyi b/stdlib/3/builtins.pyi
index 6ca58e106..8c7570689 100644
--- a/stdlib/3/builtins.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/3/builtins.pyi
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ Ellipsis = ...  # type: ellipsis
 # Exceptions
 
 class BaseException:
-    args = ...  # type: Any
+    args = ...  # type: Tuple[Any, ...]
     __cause__ = ... # type: BaseException
     __context__ = ... # type: BaseException
     __traceback__ = ... # type: TracebackType