> It's undocumented, and it begins with an underscore, but it would certainly be safer
> to deprecate it first.

Ah, somehow I misunderstood your earlier comment and thought _get_args had been publicized.  Removing is safe then.

Geoffrey:
> If people do override this provate method, would they really bother calling super()
> to get the essentially no-op functionality of the superclass method? 
No, but they would expect __repr__ to use their _get_args, which it won’t after the removal (see the patch).

> FWIW, Google Code and github both seem to be free of any such code.
Thanks for checking.  It’s only a fraction of all code out there, but it’s an indicator.