What is the associativity of Python's ** operator?

Question

I was just playing around with the python command line and the ** operator, which as far as I know performs a power function. So 2 ** 3 should be (and is) 8 because 2 * 2 *

Answer 1

2** (2**(2**2))

from http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html

Operators in the same box group left to right (except for comparisons, including tests, which all have the same precedence and chain from left to right — see section Comparisons — and exponentiation, which groups from right to left).