diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index 34c8636abaa925..a4de7cb09cca9d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -708,8 +708,7 @@ Specifying function pointers using type annotations
 
       @wrap_dll_function(dll_to_wrap)
       def function_ptr_name(arg_name: ctypes_type, ...) -> ctypes_type:
-         # There should be no body
-         pass
+         """Optional docstring. There should be no function body."""
 
    The body of the decorated function is ignored, and any parameters that are
    missing type annotations are skipped. The names of the parameters are ignored
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
index a73422598b2cd9..1f2b9cf0e3ce8d 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -590,6 +590,8 @@ def decorator(func):
 
         ptr.restype = restype
         ptr.argtypes = tuple(annotations.values())
+        functools.update_wrapper(ptr, func, updated=())
+
         return ptr
 
     return decorator
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_funcptr.py b/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_funcptr.py
index 86699ad8109827..28ff34f9048454 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_funcptr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_funcptr.py
@@ -134,12 +134,14 @@ def test_abstract(self):
     def test_wrap_dll_function(self):
         @wrap_dll_function(ctypes.pythonapi)
         def PyObject_GetAttr(op: ctypes.py_object, attr: ctypes.py_object) -> ctypes.py_object:
+            """Call the PythonAPI function underlying getattr"""
             pass
 
         class Foo:
             a = "abc"
 
         self.assertEqual(PyObject_GetAttr(Foo, "a"), "abc")
+        self.assertEqual(PyObject_GetAttr.__doc__, "Call the PythonAPI function underlying getattr")
 
         with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
             @wrap_dll_function(ctypes.pythonapi)