While cleaning up the documentation for the tempfile module I noticed that the docstrings for the mk*temp functions in the module itself list their signatures (incompletely) in the first line. I don't know if that was intentional, but it seems both redundant and error-prone to me. The help() function already displays the signatures of Python functions. There's no need to put them in docstrings and risk having them out-of-date. For example: >>> help(tempfile.mkdtemp) Help on function mkdtemp in module tempfile: mkdtemp(suffix='', prefix='tmp', dir=None) mkdtemp([suffix, [prefix, [dir]]]) User-callable function to create and return a unique temporary directory. The return value is the pathname of the directory. Am I way off-base here? Let me know, as I have a couple minor tweaks to check in besides these. Thx, Skip