Python Beginner needs help

[vagrant sluice]

For background, I'm coming from coding in scratch. :p (Gotta start somewhere)
Here is the buggy script:
user_input = input("What operation would you like to do? (Options: + - * /) : ")
x = user_input
if x == "+" or "-" or "*" or "*" or "/":
print("Valid Syntax")
else:
print("Invalid Syntax")

Oh, and the issue is that it keeps giving the if statement as true

By the way, I'm starting out by trying to see if i can get the program to know what symbols are allowed if you can't tell

And my first project is a calculator

in the console

Python Beginner needs help

[hard harbor]

For the record:

[deep mesa]

Use codeblocks to send code in a message!

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For example:
```cs
Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
```

Produces:

Console.WriteLine("Hello World");

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[hard harbor]

You highlighting every line, and spacing it all out, is so incredibly pointless

[vagrant sluice]

Thanks for telling! Didn’t know!

[versed hound]

I might be wrong, but I don’t think this is a valid way to write the if-statement.

For ever new ”or” write x == …
Instead of just …

I don’t really know what python is comparing with in further or continuations.

So :
if x == "+" or x == "-" or …)