From 469bd30fd1d981ea3e2af0d0827956532b41b277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:54:38 -0400
Subject: Slightly optimized a slow test.

---
 bs4/tests/test_pageelement.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bs4/tests/test_pageelement.py b/bs4/tests/test_pageelement.py
index 4567935..b2773be 100644
--- a/bs4/tests/test_pageelement.py
+++ b/bs4/tests/test_pageelement.py
@@ -291,12 +291,13 @@ class TestPersistence(SoupTest):
         markup = "<span>" * limit
 
         soup = self.soup(markup)
-
+        encoded = soup.encode()
+        
         copied = copy.copy(soup)
-        assert soup.encode() == copied.encode()
+        assert encoded == copied.encode()
 
         copied = copy.deepcopy(soup)
-        assert soup.encode() == copied.encode()
+        assert encoded == copied.encode()
 
     def test_copy_preserves_encoding(self):
         soup = BeautifulSoup(b'<p>&nbsp;</p>', 'html.parser')
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