Hi Jack:

Your best bet here is to define the Sample Type itself using the UI, where you can set up the naming pattern, as well as all the fields needed. Then you can use the python API to populate it.

Another option, since your naming pattern looks to be just the value from a different column, would be to either change the source spreadsheet to rename it OR possibly use an import alias on the SampleID (Name) field, though I have not tried that using the python API myself.

Thanks for reaching out and hope that helps,

--Molly