Hello Simon,
You can see the MathWorks documentation here to know how to append new rows to a matrix. Incase you want to append new rows to a table you can look at the MathWorks documentation here.
If you have functions and objects in Python, you can call them directly from MATLAB. This allows you to work entirely within MATLAB without switching your programming environment. To know more about calling Python libraries from MATLAB click here. To know how to access Python Libraries in Matlab, click here.