old_contents: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  
  """
      pyap.address
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  
      Contains class for constructing Address object which holds information
      about address and its components.
  
      :copyright: (c) 2015 by Vladimir Goncharov.
      :license: MIT, see LICENSE for more details.
  """
  
  from .packages import six
  
  
  class Address(object):
  
      def __init__(self, **args):
          keys = []
          vals = []
          for k, v in six.iteritems(args):
              if v:
                  v = v.strip(' ,;:')
              # create object variables
              setattr(self, k, v)
              # prepare for dict
              keys.append(k)
              vals.append(v)
          self.data_as_dict = dict(zip(keys, vals))
  
      def as_dict(self):
          # Return parsed address parts as a dictionary
          return self.data_as_dict
  
      def __repr__(self):
          # Address object is represented as textual address
          address = self.full_address
          if six.PY2:
              address = address.encode('utf-8')
          return address
  
new_contents: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  
  """
      pyap.address
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  
      Contains class for constructing Address object which holds information
      about address and its components.
  
      :copyright: (c) 2015 by Vladimir Goncharov.
      :license: MIT, see LICENSE for more details.
  """
  
  from .packages import six
  
  
  class Address(object):
  
      def __init__(self, **args):
          keys = []
          vals = []
          for k, v in six.iteritems(args):
              if v and isinstance(v, str):
                  v = v.strip(' ,;:')
              # create object variables
              setattr(self, k, v)
              # prepare for dict
              keys.append(k)
              vals.append(v)
          self.data_as_dict = dict(zip(keys, vals))
  
      def as_dict(self):
          # Return parsed address parts as a dictionary
          return self.data_as_dict
  
      def __repr__(self):
          # Address object is represented as textual address
          address = self.full_address
          if six.PY2:
              address = address.encode('utf-8')
          return address
  
subject: remove assumption that the value is always a string