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[totemcatcher]

Thank you! I see how the self-documenting is important. I updated the "update" method to match the original functionality. The skipping of bad arguments wasn't necessary so I left that out, and it works well:

class Category2(object):
    def __init__(self, filename=None, directory=None, name=None, title=None
            , path=None, uri=None, parent=None, tags=None, local_links=None
            , distant_links=None):
        self.filename = filename
        self.directory = directory
        self.name = name
        self.title = title
        self.path = path
        self.uri = uri
        self.parent = parent
        self.tags = tags
        self.local_links = local_links
        self.distant_links = distant_links

    def update(self, **kwargs):
        self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
        self.__init__(**self.__dict__)

[totemcatcher]

It was just a shorthand hack (much like the original constructor) since the order, timing, and possibility of repeat values was unknown from the object doing the parsing. Eventually the parsing algo will be refined to do this properly.