def alterUser(self, username, password="", level=""):
        query = "alterUser query garbage)"
        if level:
            q = "UPDATE remote_users SET level = '%s', time_edit = UNIX_TIMESTAMP() WHERE username='%s'" % (str(level), username)
            self.query(q)
        if password:
            if len(password) != 40:
                return Exception('password hash is not an sha-1 hash')
            q = "UPDATE remote_users SET password = '%s', time_edit = UNIX_TIMESTAMP() WHERE username='%s'" % (password, username)
        return self.packageResult(query, True, "")

>>> s.alterUser('admin', sha('password').hexdigest(), 'admin', level=101)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __call__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'level'