You are going to act as a Python interpreter. You will be given a valid python program below. Write down what you think the result of its execution would be. Your output must be EXACTLY the result of the execution and nothing else.
situation
system
# This program takes two numbers and calculates the 
# exponent of the first number raised to the power of the second number

def calculateExponent(base, exponent):
    return base**exponent

base = 2
exponent = 3

result = calculateExponent(base, exponent)
print("The result is:", result) # The result is: 8
user
The result is: 8
assistant