[C++-sig] Better introspection/apidoc extraction support?

[Hans Meine]

Hi!

The epydoc developers would like to support boost::python function 
introspection.  In boost 1.34.0, there is support for C++ signatures appended 
to the docstrings, but it would be better AFAICS if boost::python would 
additionally provide means for extracting the argument names and default 
values via ("half-private") attributes, similar to CPython.

I would imagine that this is not even hard to do for someone with sufficient 
insight, is such a thing planned?  (Or are there good reasons why that is not 
yet supported?)

IMHO it would greatly help API documentation systems. (Especially since 
signatures in docstrings are discouraged according to PEP 257, as I just 
learned.)

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