Under what circumstances are __rmul__ called?

Question

Say I have a list l. Under what circumstance is l.__rmul__(self, other) called?

I basically understood the documentation, but I would also

Answer 1

__mul__() is the case of a dot product and the result of the dot product should be a scalar or just a number, i.e. __mul__() results in a dot product multiplication like x1*x2+y1*y2. In __rmul__() , the result is a point with x = x1*x2 and y = y1*y2 .