Using Conky with multiple MPD servers

Hello gang. I have 3 MPD servers that I connect to from my laptop (one is running on my laptop, 2 are on remote servers), and I'd like to have Conky report "now playing" info from whichever one is active at any given moment. My issue is with dynamically identifying the host/port within Conky.
I have a Python script that returns the host and port of the active MPD server, which is called like this:
$ python MpdInfoHandler.py -host
this.is.myhost
$ python MpdInfoHandler.py -port
6600
So, I tried putting this in my conkyrc:
mpd_host ${execi 300 python /pathtoscript/MpdInfoHandler.py -host}
mpd_port ${execi 300 python /pathtoscript/MpdInfoHandler.py -port}
This doesn't work - Conky seems to interpret the host and port as the actual strings appearing on each line. So, my question is: is there a way to assign the output of the script calls to "mpd_host" and "mpd_port"? Or does this only work when dealing with stuff underneath the "TEXT" section in conkyrc?
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