Adding text to p tag in Beautiful Soup

I was wondering if anyone knew how to add text to a tag (p, b -- any tag where you might want to include character data). The documentation mentions no where how you might do this.

From stackoverflow

• I'm not sure exactly if this is what you want, but maybe it's a start...

  from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, NavigableString
  
  html = "<p></p>"
  soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
  ptag = soup.find('p')
  ptag.insert(0, NavigableString("new"))
  print ptag
  

  Outputs

  <p>new</p>
  

  The documentations shows a few more similar examples: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#Modifying%20the%20Parse%20Tree

• >>> import BeautifulSoup
  >>> b=BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup("<p></p><p></p>")
  >>> for t,s in zip(b,[u'hello',u'world']):
  ...     t.contents.append(BeautifulSoup.NavigableString(s))
  ... 
  >>> b
  <p>hello</p><p>world</p>