From 92ad5e0dee9503f507f6277b493dfa96010f3a44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:08:48 -0400
Subject: Copying a NavigableString will give you a new NavigableString that is
 not connected to the parse tree.

---
 bs4/element.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'bs4/element.py')

diff --git a/bs4/element.py b/bs4/element.py
index d1b7c12..0486da2 100644
--- a/bs4/element.py
+++ b/bs4/element.py
@@ -689,7 +689,10 @@ class NavigableString(unicode, PageElement):
         return u
 
     def __copy__(self):
-        return self
+        """A copy of a NavigableString has the same contents and class
+        as the original, but it is not connected to the parse tree.
+        """
+        return type(self)(self)
 
     def __getnewargs__(self):
         return (unicode(self),)
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