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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index bab20d8..3e4d547 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1803,17 +1803,17 @@ like calling ``.append()`` on a Python list:: soup.a.contents # [u'Foo', u'Bar'] -``BeautifulSoup.new_string()`` and ``.new_tag()`` +``NavigableString()`` and ``.new_tag()`` ------------------------------------------------- If you need to add a string to a document, no problem--you can pass a -Python string in to ``append()``, or you can call the factory method -``BeautifulSoup.new_string()``:: +Python string in to ``append()``, or you can call the ``NavigableString`` +constructor:: soup = BeautifulSoup("<b></b>") tag = soup.b tag.append("Hello") - new_string = soup.new_string(" there") + new_string = NavigableString(" there") tag.append(new_string) tag # <b>Hello there.</b> @@ -1821,18 +1821,17 @@ Python string in to ``append()``, or you can call the factory method # [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()``:: +``NavigableString``, just call the constructor:: from bs4 import Comment - new_comment = soup.new_string("Nice to see you.", Comment) + new_comment = Comment("Nice to see you.") 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.) +(This is a new feature in Beautiful Soup 4.4.0.) What if you need to create a whole new tag? The best solution is to call the factory method ``BeautifulSoup.new_tag()``:: |