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 Thus, in an unparenthesized sequence of power and unary operators, the operators
 are evaluated from right to left (this does not constrain the evaluation order
-for the operands).
+for the operands): ``-1**2`` results in ``-1``.
 
 The power operator has the same semantics as the built-in :func:`pow` function,
 when called with two arguments: it yields its left argument raised to the power