A NavigableString object now has an immutable '.name' property whose

+  value is always None. This makes it easier to iterate over a mixed
+  list of tags and strings without having to check whether each
+  element is a tag or a string.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bs4/tests/test_tree.py b/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
index 2d09f96..0acc092 100644
--- a/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
+++ b/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
@@ -1219,6 +1219,12 @@ class TestCDAtaListAttributes(SoupTest):
         # attribute for any other tag.
         self.assertEqual('ISO-8859-1 UTF-8', soup.a['accept-charset'])
 
+    def test_string_has_immutable_name_property(self):
+        string = self.soup("s").string
+        self.assertEqual(None, string.name)
+        def t():
+            string.name = 'foo'
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, t)
 
 class TestPersistence(SoupTest):
     "Testing features like pickle and deepcopy."