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The issue I am having is that when I input a number [1-3] It is accepted but I can not get it to be viewed as a variable.
So it will print "Line_2" but it will not activate "Line_2" and print "Choice_B" which is what I need it to do.
Now this of course just a test script for a much bigger script, but It is failing just the same way.
If I replace [print(Line_2)] then the output is"Choice_B" as it should be. So I must be missing a conversion in the variables.
Any help with this would be much appreciated.

Line_1 = "Choice_C"  # I would like to choose one of these lines
Line_2 = "Choice_B"  # I would like to choose one of these lines
Line_3 = "Choice_A"  # I would like to choose one of these lines

line = input("pick a line number:")  # I would enter the number 1-3
line = int(line)  # I wastrying to change this to an interger.


print("line_" + str(line))  # then I tried changeing it to a string.

# This is the output when running


pick a line number: 2
line_2

The issue is I need the printed output to say: Choice_B
When I select number 2.

Use a list instead of names containing numbers

choices = ['Choice_C', 'Choice_B', 'Choice_A']
...
print(choices[line-1])

Other option is to make a dictionary,can just use your code and add dict().
Also showing f-string so can avoid code like "line_" + str(line).

# Make dictionary
line_record = dict(
    Line_1 = "Choice_C",
    Line_2 = "Choice_B",
    Line_3 = "Choice_A",
    )

line = input("pick a line number: ")
result = line_record.get(line, 'No record of that input')
print(result)
print('--------------')
# Example of f-string
print(f'Input was <{line}> with result of <{result}>')

Output:
λ python line_code.py                                           
pick a line number: Line_2                                      
Choice_B                                                        
--------------                                                  
Input was <Line_2> with result of <Choice_B>                    
                                                        
λ python line_code.py                                           
pick a line number: Line1000                                    
No record of that input                                         
--------------                                                  
Input was <Line1000> with result of <No record of that input>