How To Call Function Dynamically

I have a class containing several lists as attributes and several add methods to append an object to a specific list based on its type.

My code reads a csv file containing the type of an object in order to create and add it to my cart. My problem is that I'm testing the object type to call the right 'add' function using if elif syntax but this is not very nice and hard to maintain.

For example

import csv


class my_item():
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name


class fruit(my_item):
    pass


class vegetable(my_item):
    pass


class meat(my_item):
    pass


class fish(my_item):
    pass


class shopping_cart():
    def __init__(self):
        self.fruits = []
        self.vegetables = []
        self.meat = []
        self.fish = []

    def add_fruit(self, o):
        self.fruits.append(o)

    def add_vegetable(self, o):
        self.vegetables.append(o)

    def add_meat(self, o):
        self.meat.append(o)

    def add_fish(self, o):
        self.fish.append(o)

    def __str__(self):
        msg = ""
        msg += "{:<25}= {:<5}\n".format('Total', str(len(self.fruits) + len(self.vegetables) + len(self.meat) + len(self.fish)))
        for attrname in vars(self):
            value = getattr(self, attrname)
            if isinstance(value, list):
                msg += "  {:<23}= {:<5}\n".format(attrname, len(value))
        return msg

def main():
    input_f = 'input.csv'
    my_cart = shopping_cart()
    with open(input_f, 'r') as i:
        rows = csv.reader(i, delimiter=';')
        for row in rows:
            item = globals()[row[0]](row[1])
            if item.__class__.__name__ == 'fruit':
                my_cart.add_fruit(item)
            elif item.__class__.__name__ == 'vegetable':
                my_cart.add_vegetable(item)
            elif item.__class__.__name__ == 'meat':
                my_cart.add_meat(item)
            else:
                my_cart.add_fish(item)
    print (my_cart)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Do you see any alternatives to the if elif block?

Thanks for your feedback.

Sure, you just need to create the function name dynamically and call it. Be careful, this will works only if my_cart have add_{{ item name }} method.

def main():
    input_f = 'input.csv'
    my_cart = shopping_cart()
    with open(input_f, 'r') as i:
        rows = csv.reader(i, delimiter=';')
        for row in rows:
            item = globals()[row[0]](row[1])
            item_name = item.__class__.__name__
            item_add_func_name = 'add_{}'.format(item_name)
            item_add_func = getattr(my_cart, item_add_func_name, None)
            if item_add_func and callable(item_add_func):
                item_add_func(item)
            # if item.__class__.__name__ == 'fruit':
            #     my_cart.add_fruit(item)
            # elif item.__class__.__name__ == 'vegetable':
            #     my_cart.add_vegetable(item)
            # elif item.__class__.__name__ == 'meat':
            #     my_cart.add_meat(item)
            # else:
            #     my_cart.add_fish(item)

    print (my_cart)