I can mostly read Python syntax, but am utterly unfamiliar with the Python web server used in this project. Here is what I understand and what I don't: (Please correct any mistakes) ...

Microsoft has made its Pylance language server the default on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code.

For your use case, assuming this is an internal work network, I'd say the simplest is to create a simple http service with python (lots of simple http server apps in python) where you can just ...

Small is beautiful. Look to these Python web frameworks when you want speed and simplicity instead of feature sprawl.

Django includes a development Web server, based on the one provided in the Python language, for building and testing new applications.

The OpenAPI specification, and the Swagger suite of tools built around it, make it incredibly easy for Python developers to create, document and manually test the RESTful APIs they create. Regardless ...