diff --git a/stdlib/2/__builtin__.pyi b/stdlib/2/__builtin__.pyi
index f64476f86..55fdea25b 100644
--- a/stdlib/2/__builtin__.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2/__builtin__.pyi
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ class memoryview(Sized, Container[bytes]):
 
 class BaseException(object):
     args = ...  # type: Tuple[Any, ...]
-    message = ...  # type: str
+    message = ...  # type: Any
     def __init__(self, *args: object, **kwargs: object) -> None: ...
     def __getitem__(self, i: int) -> Any: ...
     def __getslice__(self, start: int, stop: int) -> Tuple[Any, ...]: ...