restructuredText, docstring and python interactive shell

Question

I am using reStructuredText to document my code, so as to get nice offline HTML pages by means of epydoc.

Results are brilliant. The only drawback is that when I use the Python interactive shell, the help() function does not parse the reST metadata in the documentation strings, and instead it displays the whole thing as it is.

Is there a way to have help() to do some minimal parsing of the docstrings?

I don't expect rendering of italic fonts or hyperlinks, but at least some minimal cleanup to increase readbility.