Understanding this is important, as we need to choose (declare) the type of variable when we first create it. This is because Java is “statically-typed” as opposed to a language like Python ...

That said, enums tend to be the most familiar and idiomatic way to do this in Python. You cannot match against variable contents through indexing. For instance, case commands[0]: would be rejected ...

Post a runnable example that demonstrates the unwanted behavior. There are a number of different ways to cause that sort of thing in Python.