Keep track of the namespace abbreviations found while parsing the document. This makes select() work most of the time without requiring a value for 'namespaces'.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bs4/builder/__init__.py b/bs4/builder/__init__.py
index c9e3f3d..610d42f 100644
--- a/bs4/builder/__init__.py
+++ b/bs4/builder/__init__.py
@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ class TreeBuilder(object):
     def __init__(self):
         self.soup = None
 
+    def initialize_soup(self, soup):
+        """The BeautifulSoup object has been initialized and is now
+        being associated with the TreeBuilder.
+        """
+        self.soup = soup
+        
     def reset(self):
         pass