Query the Metadata API from Python

Hi

We are currently stuck with the Metadata API. We would like to query the Metadata API from a Python script but can't find any examples of how to do that. Unfortunately we can't implement GraphQL on the server we are using and would like to use a rest API approach, but I see that the Metadata API is GraphQL based. Does anyone know of a way to query the Metadata API from Python, and do we need to have GraphQL loaded on the server to hit the GraphQL API and return a JSON response? An example would help immensely.

We want to use the Metadata API to do dependency mapping of the database tables being used in our Tableau workbooks, so the Metadata comes in extremely handy for digging through custom SQL queries.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.