Trigger A Python Script By Using JavaScript - javascript

I am doing a little project where i have prepared the back end in python and the graphic user interface woth HTML, CSS & JS.
The python script doesn't require any external librariesand the only thing that it does is opening a JSON file with the data processed, since it's a game the results are casually generated, and because of this I don't have to pass any parameters to the script.
The problem is that I don't know how to trigger the script so it generates the json that i can access trough JabaScript.
the scheme of the project is this:
index.html
pages (folder)
newGame.html
loadGame.html
rules.html
python (folder)
python_script1.py
python_script2.py
python_script3.py
main.py
specifically i have to trigger the script once the user has loaded the newGame page or the loadGame one.
(obiuvsly the js isn't node.js is actual client-side JavaScript)
I obiuvsly did some research and i found the pyodyde open source project does what i want, the fact is that i can't figure out how to connect the interface file with the back-end one with this resource.

solution
Ok, with some other research i found out how to solve my problem.
But firstable I want to thank you guys for recommending me the PyScript library.
The problem I was having is that i needed to connect a python file within the pyscript tag.
At first i tought that I had to import it with the import keyword and than executing the file.
But than I discovered that the py-script tag has an src attribute and you can link all the external files that you want.
So, in the end, iall i had to do was to connect my file is this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<title>newGame</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<py-script src= "./python scripts/test_file.py"></py-script>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
<script defer src="https://pyscript.net/alpha/pyscript.js"></script>
</html>

There is a new library called PyScript (it can help you run python in your HTML), all you need to do to install the cli is doing this command:
pip install pyscript-cli (This command will install the cli not the library).
then you should do this command:
pyscript wrap python_file.py (NOTE: this will convert the python file to an html file so the python file name would be the name of the html file)
And it should be done.
The HTML code would be this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Homepage</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://pyscript.net/alpha/pyscript.css"/>
<script defer src="https://pyscript.net/alpha/pyscript.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<py-script>
Code here
</py-script>
</body>
</html>

But than, once i typed in the command and created the html file from the python script, how do I connect it to the "newLevel" page?

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