User manual
You won’t have to search long to find an immense amount of informaon regarding Python on the Web. Besides
your favorite search engine, a good place to start looking for further informaon is Python’s home site:
hp://python.org/
The Documentaon page on Python’s home site contains links to tutorials at various levels of programming
experience, from beginner to expert.
As menoned earlier, Portal acts as a peer in the SNAP network, and can send and receive RPC calls like any
other node. Once you have loaded a Python script into Portal, any funcon available in the script can be invoked
by any other node in your network. Thanks to this capability, any node in your network can send an e-mail or
update a database in response to some monitored event, even if they do not have a direct connecon to the
appropriate servers.
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