renpy.random.choice and If statement questions

[Bluberi_Lemonade]

Hi! I searched around a little bit and couldn't find any answers to these particular questions, so I thought I'd just ask here.

I just learned how to use renpy.random.choice to generate a random element from a list of them, for example:

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$ randfruit = renpy.random.choice(['apple', 'orange', 'plum'])
"Shop Clerk" "Would you like a [randfruit]?"

I understand this, but I wanted to know if there was any way to use things like if statements with the random elements, or anything that could cause something to occur only if a specific element out of the list was chosen.
For example, whether the Shop Clerk says 'apple', 'orange' or 'plum' is totally random, but if she were to say 'apple', what she says after saying 'apple' is different than what she says after saying 'orange' or 'plum'. How would I make this happen? An example in code would be much appreciated, and if you have trouble understanding what I'm saying, sorry, I will try to elaborate better. Thank you so much!

[Asceai]

Sure.

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$ randfruit = renpy.random.choice(['apple', 'orange', 'plum'])
"Shop Clerk" "Would you like a [randfruit]?"
if randfruit == 'apple':
  "Shop Clerk" "Apples are in season this time of year!"
elif randfruit == 'orange':
  "Shop Clerk" "They make a great garnish for cocktails!"
elif randfruit == 'plum':
  "Shop Clerk" "They're not really in season, but they're always delicious!"

[Donmai]

Asceai beat me. That's exactly what I was going to suggest. Only, for the sake of good English, I would rewrite the variables this way: 'an apple', 'an orange' and 'a plum'. And the code slightly altered:

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$ randfruit = renpy.random.choice(['an apple', 'an orange', 'a plum'])
"Shop Clerk" "Would you like [randfruit]?"
if randfruit == 'an apple':
  "Shop Clerk" "Apples are in season this time of year!"
elif randfruit == 'an orange':
  "Shop Clerk" "They make a great garnish for cocktails!"
elif randfruit == 'a plum':
  "Shop Clerk" "They're not really in season, but they're always delicious!"

[Bluberi_Lemonade]

Sure.

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$ randfruit = renpy.random.choice(['apple', 'orange', 'plum'])
"Shop Clerk" "Would you like a [randfruit]?"
if randfruit == 'apple':
  "Shop Clerk" "Apples are in season this time of year!"
elif randfruit == 'orange':
  "Shop Clerk" "They make a great garnish for cocktails!"
elif randfruit == 'plum':
  "Shop Clerk" "They're not really in season, but they're always delicious!"

Ah...I had that exact set-up, but I didn't put in the double equal signs, aha...

Once I put that in, the code worked like magic <3

Thank you so much! This helped a lot!

@Donmai oh yeah, didn't notice that there. That was a random scenario I made up really fast for this example but now I see that that would make more sense. Thanks!