diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/autodoc.i b/Examples/test-suite/autodoc.i
index 97c05d791..ec7307a35 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/autodoc.i
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/autodoc.i
@@ -148,3 +148,11 @@ bool is_python_builtin() { return true; }
 bool is_python_builtin() { return false; }
 #endif
 %}
+
+// Autodoc Python keywords
+%warnfilter(SWIGWARN_PARSE_KEYWORD) process;
+%feature(autodoc,0) process;
+%feature("compactdefaultargs") process;
+%inline %{
+int process(int from) { return from; }
+%}
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/errors/swig_typemap_warn.stderr b/Examples/test-suite/errors/swig_typemap_warn.stderr
index 5116dbc91..dde790024 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/errors/swig_typemap_warn.stderr
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/errors/swig_typemap_warn.stderr
@@ -3,5 +3,7 @@ swig_typemap_warn.i:7: Warning 1000: Test warning for 'in' typemap for int arg3
 swig_typemap_warn.i:7: Warning 1001: Test warning for 'out' typemap for double mmm (result) - name: mmm symname: mmm &1_ltype: double * descriptor: SWIGTYPE_double
 swig_typemap_warn.i:7: Warning 1000: Test warning for 'in' typemap for int abc (arg1) - argnum: 1 &1_ltype: int * descriptor: SWIGTYPE_int
 swig_typemap_warn.i:7: Warning 1000: Test warning for 'in' typemap for int arg3 (arg3) - argnum: 3 &1_ltype: int * descriptor: SWIGTYPE_int
+swig_typemap_warn.i:7: Warning 314: 'def' is a python keyword, renaming to '_def'
 swig_typemap_warn.i:7: Warning 1000: Test warning for 'in' typemap for int abc (arg1) - argnum: 1 &1_ltype: int * descriptor: SWIGTYPE_int
 swig_typemap_warn.i:7: Warning 1000: Test warning for 'in' typemap for int arg3 (arg3) - argnum: 3 &1_ltype: int * descriptor: SWIGTYPE_int
+swig_typemap_warn.i:7: Warning 314: 'def' is a python keyword, renaming to '_def'
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/keyword_rename.i b/Examples/test-suite/keyword_rename.i
index 46c3338b3..23c01087d 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/keyword_rename.i
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/keyword_rename.i
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 %module keyword_rename
 
+%feature("kwargs");
+
 #pragma SWIG nowarn=SWIGWARN_PARSE_KEYWORD
 
 %inline %{
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/python/autodoc_runme.py b/Examples/test-suite/python/autodoc_runme.py
index 1350c6d67..ab963a748 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/python/autodoc_runme.py
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/python/autodoc_runme.py
@@ -202,3 +202,5 @@ check(inspect.getdoc(banana), "banana(S a, S b, int c, Integer d)")
 check(inspect.getdoc(TInteger), "Proxy of C++ T< int > class.", "::T< int >")
 check(inspect.getdoc(TInteger.__init__), "__init__(TInteger self) -> TInteger", None, skip)
 check(inspect.getdoc(TInteger.inout), "inout(TInteger self, TInteger t) -> TInteger")
+
+check(inspect.getdoc(process), "process(_from) -> int")
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/python/keyword_rename_runme.py b/Examples/test-suite/python/keyword_rename_runme.py
index 5646ce7d6..0bdd64b10 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/python/keyword_rename_runme.py
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/python/keyword_rename_runme.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import keyword_rename
 keyword_rename._in(1)
+keyword_rename._in(_except=1)
 keyword_rename._except(1)
+keyword_rename._except(_in=1)
diff --git a/Source/Modules/lang.cxx b/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
index 96588dcc3..92445dc3f 100644
--- a/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
+++ b/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
@@ -3602,7 +3602,7 @@ String *Language::makeParameterName(Node *n, Parm *p, int arg_num, bool setter)
   String *arg = 0;
   String *pn = Getattr(p, "name");
 
-  // Use C parameter name unless it is a duplicate or an empty parameter name
+  // Check if parameter name is a duplicate.
   int count = 0;
   ParmList *plist = Getattr(n, "parms");
   while (plist) {
@@ -3610,8 +3610,14 @@ String *Language::makeParameterName(Node *n, Parm *p, int arg_num, bool setter)
       count++;
     plist = nextSibling(plist);
   }
-  String *wrn = pn ? Swig_name_warning(p, 0, pn, 0) : 0;
-  arg = (!pn || (count > 1) || wrn) ? NewStringf("arg%d", arg_num) : Copy(pn);
+
+  // If the parameter has no name at all or has a non-unique name, replace it with "argN".
+  if (!pn || count > 1) {
+    arg = NewStringf("arg%d", arg_num);
+  } else {
+    // Otherwise, try to use the original C name, but modify it if necessary to avoid conflicting with the language keywords.
+    arg = Swig_name_make(p, 0, pn, 0, 0);
+  }
 
   if (setter && Cmp(arg, "self") != 0) {
     // Some languages (C#) insist on calling the input variable "value" while
diff --git a/Source/Modules/python.cxx b/Source/Modules/python.cxx
index d3d157ddf..d58e21ba7 100755
--- a/Source/Modules/python.cxx
+++ b/Source/Modules/python.cxx
@@ -1591,21 +1591,6 @@ public:
     return ds;
   }
 
-  virtual String *makeParameterName(Node *n, Parm *p, int arg_num, bool = false) const {
-    // For the keyword arguments, we want to preserve the names as much as possible,
-    // so we only minimally rename them in Swig_name_make(), e.g. replacing "keyword"
-    // with "_keyword" if they have any name at all.
-    if (check_kwargs(n)) {
-      String *name = Getattr(p, "name");
-      if (name)
-	return Swig_name_make(p, 0, name, 0, 0);
-    }
-
-    // For the other cases use the general function which replaces arguments whose
-    // names clash with keywords with (less useful) "argN".
-    return Language::makeParameterName(n, p, arg_num);
-  }
-
   /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    * addMissingParameterNames()
    *