power TypeErrors

[anton wilson]

I'm trying to understand the possible type errors for **

The language reference states that


The power operator has the same semantics as the built-in pow() function, 
when called with two arguments: it yields its left argument raised to the 
power of its right argument. The numeric arguments are first converted to a 
common type. The result type is that of the arguments after coercion; if the 
result is not expressible in that type (as in raising an integer to a 
negative power, or a negative floating point number to a broken power), a 
TypeError exception is raised. 



I'm running code such as: 

1 ** -2
-1.2 ** 0.5

and there is no type error.

How do I generate a type error?


Anton