在 python 中使用 sql 查询重命名系统文件夹

Question

I have made a power automate flow that runs when someone submit a Microsoft form, the result will create a folder of the name of the person who filled that form (Name field is mandatory in the form) and store the files into that folder he has attached at the time of filling the form. Names also gets updated in the database under xyz table. It is sure that if 10 people fill the form in a day then in database also there will be 10 rows added under Name column.

In xyz table there is one more column named surname. It also gets updated along with name column. example below:

Name    Surname

David   Warner
Shane   Watson

What I want is to make a python script that check names from the database daily and change folder names to surname. Basically, the script will check if name = David then changes the folder name to Warner and if name = Shane then changes it to Watson and so on... I have no idea how to rename like this.

Answer 1

Actually it makes your work hard when some names may be duplicated and folder names can't be. I recommend you to use sth like unique primary key as auto increment and make folder for every id of users. In such case you don't need to change anything. It is a little bit hard to find out files but it is easy to implement.

Another way to implement sth like this is to structure folder based on Year/Month/Day of creation. This is organized and you can store the file path as another field in DB and easily access them.