Why do I have a syntaxerror?

Question

I've just started learning and decided to solve some problems. I need to define a function with three arguments which will make arithmetic operations.
This is my code:
def arithmetic(num1, num2, operation):
if operation == '+':
return num1+num2
elif operation =='-':
return num1-num2
elif operation =='*':
return num1*num2
elif operation =='/':
return num1/num2
else:
return("Unknown operation")

>>>arithmetic(1, 2, +) syntax error

Answer 1

Because you used the actual + operator as an argument of your 'arithmetic' function instead of putting it in quotes.

Answer 2

»> arithmetic(1,2, +)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It highlights the last bracket

Answer 3

how dumb of me. Thank you, man!