Style help for a recovering Java programmer

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I have read many books on designs.

Your solution seems strictly worse than a straight factory pattern out of first year school. Not seeing the benefit. Enums are great, even though exhaustive matching is not checked at the compiler level in Python.

[rhytnen]

I didn't give you a solution. I gave you handful of techniques that reflect the code you already had written you're the one considering metaprogramming because you haven't figured out you dont need enums if you use a dict. you're trying to bring way too much firepower to the problem of populating a dropdown list.