python, javascript and mysql

[someguy]

Hi all!
    	I'm new to python so i'm hoping someone could help me out.  I'm 
trying to use python for cgi.  I have a page with pictures along the sides 
and a table in the middle.  The pictures on the side change using 
javascript.  What I want to do is populate that table by getting the 
records from mySql using python and then somehow populate my table on the 
page with these values.  How do i pass these values from python back to 
javascript?  Or do i have to generate the whole html code again in the cgi 
file?

Thanks in advance