Ronald Oussoren added the comment: If I read the code correctly help(pyth.__init__) won't use the __signature__ because that is an attribute of the type, not of the method itself.
With the patch in issue17053 help should be better when __init__'s signatuer is set explicitly: class Stock(Structure): __signature__ = make_signature(['name', 'shares', 'price']) def __init__(self, *args, **kwds): super(Stock, self).__init__(*args, **kwds) __init__.__signature__ = __signature__ Sadly enough it isn't easily possible to define a subclass of function where __signature__ is a property that returns the class attribute __signature__. ---------- nosy: +ronaldoussoren _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17424> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com