You can now create a NavigableString or a subclass just by invoking

  the constructor. [bug=1294315]

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/bs4/__init__.py b/bs4/__init__.py
index c78c54e..4b92152 100644
--- a/bs4/__init__.py
+++ b/bs4/__init__.py
@@ -241,9 +241,7 @@ class BeautifulSoup(Tag):
 
     def new_string(self, s, subclass=NavigableString):
         """Create a new NavigableString associated with this soup."""
-        navigable = subclass(s)
-        navigable.setup()
-        return navigable
+        return subclass(s)
 
     def insert_before(self, successor):
         raise NotImplementedError("BeautifulSoup objects don't support insert_before().")
diff --git a/bs4/element.py b/bs4/element.py
index 2ea68b3..7fdeb08 100644
--- a/bs4/element.py
+++ b/bs4/element.py
@@ -674,9 +674,11 @@ class NavigableString(unicode, PageElement):
         how to handle non-ASCII characters.
         """
         if isinstance(value, unicode):
-            return unicode.__new__(cls, value)
-        u = unicode.__new__(cls, value, DEFAULT_OUTPUT_ENCODING)
+            u = unicode.__new__(cls, value)
+        else:
+            u = unicode.__new__(cls, value, DEFAULT_OUTPUT_ENCODING)
         u.setup()
+        return u
 
     def __copy__(self):
         return self