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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def connect(self, factory, host, port, pseudoPort=1):
 """ Attempt to establish a new connection via PTCP to the given remote address. @param factory: A L{ClientFactory} which will be used to create an L{IProtocol} provider if the connection is successfully set up, or which will have failure callbacks invoked on it otherwise. @param host: The IP address of another listening PTCP port to connect to. @type host: C{str} @param port: The port number of that other listening PTCP port to connect to. @type port: C{int} @param pseudoPort: Not really implemented. Do not pass a value for this parameter or things will break. @return: A L{PTCPConnection} instance representing the new connection, but you really shouldn't use this for anything. Write a protocol! """

        sourcePseudoPort = genConnID() % MAX_PSEUDO_PORT
        conn = self._connections[(pseudoPort, sourcePseudoPort, (host, port))
                                 ] = PTCPConnection(
            sourcePseudoPort, pseudoPort, self, factory, (host, port))
        conn.machine.appActiveOpen()
        return conn