How do I combine instance+string for variable

[Erik Max Francis]

Marc wrote:

> I have several instances of telnet connections that I label
> conn2,conn3, etc. Later when I want to scroll through all of these I
> wanted to do something like this:
> 
>     for int in range(2, 9):
>             use... conn+str(int) {I'm passing it into another
> function}
> 
> I can't get it to work. I've tried using setattr and eval, but nothing
> seems to work. Can I get a little help.

You probably meant

	connection = eval('conn' + str(connectionNumber))

although in something like this, it seems like a dictionary, with the
keys being integers, would be a far better solution.  Then you'd simply
write:

	connections[connectionNumber]

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