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author | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2013-05-20 10:20:40 -0400 |
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committer | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2013-05-20 10:20:40 -0400 |
commit | 8645d5e6b61804a5614b65db00312863189fb198 (patch) | |
tree | d96743599b70ae29656ef6215eb824142b04a75f /doc | |
parent | 2099c8ca203772514908d148b8002d4214d11637 (diff) | |
download | beautifulsoup4-8645d5e6b61804a5614b65db00312863189fb198.tar.gz |
Gave new_string() the ability to create subclasses of
NavigableString. [bug=1181986]
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index e254855..a91854c 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1806,6 +1806,20 @@ Python string in to ``append()``, or you can call the factory method tag.contents # [u'Hello', u' there'] +If you want to create a comment or some other subclass of +``NavigableString``, pass that class as the second argument to +``new_string()``:: + + from bs4 import Comment + new_comment = soup.new_string("Nice to see you.", Comment) + tag.append(new_comment) + tag + # <b>Hello there<!--Nice to see you.--></b> + tag.contents + # [u'Hello', u' there', u'Nice to see you.'] + +(This is a new feature in Beautiful Soup 4.2.1.) + What if you need to create a whole new tag? The best solution is to call the factory method ``BeautifulSoup.new_tag()``:: |