More little improvements to newint and newstr

edschofield · edschofield · commit a3968f1afa75 · 2013-10-06T12:00:39.000+11:00
diff --git a/future/builtins/backports/newint.py b/future/builtins/backports/newint.py
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         """
         if len(args) == 0:
             return super(newint, cls).__new__(cls, **kwargs)
-        elif isinstance(args[0], Integral):
-            return args[0]
         return super(newint, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
         
     def __repr__(self):
diff --git a/future/builtins/backports/newstr.py b/future/builtins/backports/newstr.py
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ def __radd__(self, left):
             except:
                 raise NotImplemented
 
+    def __mul__(self, other):
+        return newstr(super(newstr, self).__mul__(other))
+
+    def __rmul__(self, other):
+        return newstr(super(newstr, self).__rmul__(other))
+
     def join(self, iterable):
         errmsg = 'sequence item {}: expected unicode string, found bytes'
         for i, item in enumerate(iterable):
