How do choiceboxes work in Python easygui?

I mean I've set up a choicebox.

    msg = "What would you like to do first?"
title = "Economy v1.0"
choices = ["Check your bank balance", 
           "Check the value of the stocks", 
           "Check what stocks you own", 
           "Buy stocks", 
           "Sell Stocks", 
           "Move to the next day.", 
           "Exit"]
choice = eg.choicebox(msg, title, choices)

But now I'd like to know how I get it to do something when a choice is selected. The tutorial on the website didn't give much help, and all the things I've experimented with haven't worked.

I tried to do this first:

if choice == choice[0]:
    #do stuff
if choice == choice[1]:
    #do more stuff
...

When I selected a choice, nothing happened.

So then I tried this:

if choice == "Buy Stocks":
    #do stuff
if choice == "Sell Stocks":
    #do stuff
...

But that didn't work either. I have tried a range of other things, but I'm not entirely sure what the choicebox returns, and what variable it stores it in. Could someone help me out here?

Solution

What you're doing should be working. Either of those if statements should be fine, just remember that strings are case sensitive.

The easygui.choicesbox() is going to return a string to the variable you assign it to. In this case, it will ask for a selection, then stuff that value you selected into your variable choice. Remember that choicesbox always returns a string.

if you try choice in choices it should return True.