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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 connection_key(self):
 """ Return an index key used to cache the sampler connection. """

        return "{host}:{namespace}:{username}".format(host=self.host, namespace=self.namespace, username=self.username)