You can pass a dictionary of into

  BeautifulSoup.new_tag. This makes it possible to create a tag with
  an attribute like 'name' that would otherwise be masked by another
  argument of new_tag. [bug=1779276]

4 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 45a6952..52edd4c 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
   bs4.element.Formatter and passing a Formatter instance into (e.g.)
   encode(). [bug=1716272]
 
+* You can pass a dictionary of `attrs` into
+  BeautifulSoup.new_tag. This makes it possible to create a tag with
+  an attribute like 'name' that would otherwise be masked by another
+  argument of new_tag. [bug=1779276]
+
 = 4.6.0 (20170507) =
 
 * Added the `Tag.get_attribute_list` method, which acts like `Tag.get` for
diff --git a/bs4/__init__.py b/bs4/__init__.py
index 329ef53..409f528 100644
--- a/bs4/__init__.py
+++ b/bs4/__init__.py
@@ -356,9 +356,10 @@ class BeautifulSoup(Tag):
         self.preserve_whitespace_tag_stack = []
         self.pushTag(self)
 
-    def new_tag(self, name, namespace=None, nsprefix=None, **attrs):
+    def new_tag(self, name, namespace=None, nsprefix=None, attrs={}, **kwattrs):
         """Create a new tag associated with this soup."""
-        return Tag(None, self.builder, name, namespace, nsprefix, attrs)
+        kwattrs.update(attrs)
+        return Tag(None, self.builder, name, namespace, nsprefix, kwattrs)
 
     def new_string(self, s, subclass=NavigableString):
         """Create a new NavigableString associated with this soup."""
diff --git a/bs4/tests/test_tree.py b/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
index e8903e3..e5cc47e 100644
--- a/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
+++ b/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
@@ -703,12 +703,12 @@ class TestTagCreation(SoupTest):
     """Test the ability to create new tags."""
     def test_new_tag(self):
         soup = self.soup("")
-        new_tag = soup.new_tag("foo", bar="baz")
+        new_tag = soup.new_tag("foo", bar="baz", attrs={"name": "a name"})
         self.assertTrue(isinstance(new_tag, Tag))
         self.assertEqual("foo", new_tag.name)
-        self.assertEqual(dict(bar="baz"), new_tag.attrs)
+        self.assertEqual(dict(bar="baz", name="a name"), new_tag.attrs)
         self.assertEqual(None, new_tag.parent)
-
+        
     def test_tag_inherits_self_closing_rules_from_builder(self):
         if XML_BUILDER_PRESENT:
             xml_soup = BeautifulSoup("", "lxml-xml")
diff --git a/test-all-versions b/test-all-versions
index 01e436b..01e436b 100644..100755
--- a/test-all-versions
+++ b/test-all-versions