Checking multiple values in a list

Question

name = input('Please enter your name: ')
sex = input('please enter your sex. M for male, F for female :')
phone = input('enter your phone number plz. follow format:973 xxx xxxx(spaces inbetween numbers): ')
if sex == 'M' or sex=='m':
print('HELLO Mr. ', name,',\n')
else:
print('HELLO Ms. ', name,',\n')

if '973'or'862'or'551'or'201' in phone[0:3]:
print('Based on your area code ', phone[0:3],' I can tell you are from North Jersey.')
elif '732'or'908'or'848' in phone[0:3]:
print('Based on your area code ', phone[0:3],' I can tell you are from Central Jersey.')
elif '856'or'609'or'640' in phone[0:3]:
print('Based on your area code ', phone[0:3],' I can tell you are from South Jersey.')
else:
print('sorry not from jersey')

Can someone help me correctly write this code... i am trying to check the values in the first three values of phone

Answer 1

You can just do:
phone[0:3] in (‘973’, ‘862’, ‘551’, ‘201’)

etc. for elif