[Fab-user] fabric as library, access pool of connections indexed by host

[Jon Mansey]

Hello, my application requries opening ssh connections to a list of hosts 
(typically less than 10), then performing different commands on each and 
parsing the output. So I need a way to programatically address the ssh commands 
sent to the correct host. eg execute command x on host y. However I dont want 
to open a new connection and log in each time a command is needed, I want it to 
log in when first needed and keep the session open for future use.  

it seems fabric's execute command should be able to do this but perhaps im just 
missing that there is a far simpler way of making an ssh class that can be 
called with a command and an index for host?

so id like to do something like this

env.hosts = [host1, host2, host3]

execute(command1, host1)

execute(commandm, hostn)


Am I on the right track here? Are there any code examples available for this 
use-case?

Thanks

Jon