[Python-Dev] Rough idea for adding introspection information for builtins

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 6 Jul, 2013, at 19:33, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
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> Once builtins have introspection information, pydoc can do a better job, and Argument Clinic can stop generating its redundant prototype line.

Not entirely on topic, but close enough: pydoc currently doesn't use the __signature__ information at all. Adding such support would be easy enough, see #17053 for an implementation ;-)

Ronald