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Good day everyone. I need help on this test. My solution is not passing the test. Here is the question:

HST2: RECURSION LAB
Write a function power that accepts two arguments, a and b and calculates a raised to the power b.

Example:

power(2,3) = 8
Raise a TypeError with the message Argument must be integer or float if the inputs are anything other that ints or floats.

Note: Don't use **




And here is my solution:

def power(a,b):
if not isinstance(a or b,int or float):
raise TypeError('Argument must be integer or float')
else:
if(int(b)==0):
return 1

elif(int(a)==0 and int(b) >= 0):
return 0
elif(int(b)==1):
return a
else:
n = 1
c = int(a)
while n < int(b):
c*=int(a)
n+=1
return c

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