Hello, My question is c++ related (I like to call the topic extreme c++ programming). We all know the excellent boost python framework, which exports c++ functions to python with spectacular elegance. As for the documentation of those functions boost offers a string parameter, which can contain the description of the particular function. Sometimes this documentation is already written (for example in doxygen). It would be good to import this documentation somehow to python. Is there a possibility to generate a std::string from a FILE following some rules using template meta-programming (or possibly the preprocessor)? For example my_function.cpp ///************* // this is the documentation of my_function // void my_function() { cout << "I've been called.\n" } boost_export.cpp def( "my_function", &my_function, (args()), generate_the_doc_in_compile_time_from<>("my_function.cpp") ) Here the generate_the_doc_in_compile_time_from<>("my_function.cpp") would hard-wire the docs into def at compile time, so it would no longer depend on my_function.cpp. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. UJ