diff --git a/cracklib-2.8.10-docstring.patch b/cracklib-2.8.10-docstring.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd2f020
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cracklib-2.8.10-docstring.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Some docstrings for the Python module.  Need to figure out how to fix the
+summary in the help() output.
+
+diff -up cracklib-2.8.10/python/cracklibmodule.c cracklib-2.8.10/python/cracklibmodule.c
+--- cracklib-2.8.10/python/cracklibmodule.c	2007-07-19 09:57:04.000000000 -0400
++++ cracklib-2.8.10/python/cracklibmodule.c	2007-07-19 09:57:48.000000000 -0400
+@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ static pthread_mutex_t cracklib_mutex = 
+ static PyObject *
+ cracklib_FascistCheck(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
+ {
+-    int i;
+     char *candidate, *dict;
+     const char *result;
+     struct stat st;
+@@ -96,12 +95,21 @@ cracklib_FascistCheck(PyObject *self, Py
+ static PyMethodDef
+ cracklibmethods[] =
+ {
+-    {"FascistCheck", cracklib_FascistCheck, METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS},
++    {"FascistCheck", cracklib_FascistCheck, METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS,
++     "Keyword arguments:\n"
++     "  pw - candidate password\n"
++     "  dict - dictionary location (default \""
++     DEFAULT_CRACKLIB_DICT
++     "\")\n"
++     "\n"
++     "Returns:\n"
++     "  None on success, an error string on failure.\n"},
+     {NULL, NULL},
+ };
+ 
+ void
+ initcracklib(void)
+ {
+-    Py_InitModule("cracklib", cracklibmethods);
++    Py_InitModule3("cracklib", cracklibmethods,
++                   "Python interface to libcrack's FascistCheck() function.\n");
+ }