Question

I have a simple table in mysql with the following fields:

• id — Primary key, int, autoincrement
• name — varchar(50)
• description — varchar(256)

Using MySQLdb, a python module, I want to insert a name and description into the table, and get back the id.

In pseudocode:

db = MySQLdb.connection(...) queryString = 'INSERT into tablename (name, description) VALUES' % (a_name, a_desc);'  db.execute(queryString); newID = ??? 

Answer 1

I think it might be

newID = db.insert_id() 

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Edit by Original Poster

Turns out, in the version of MySQLdb that I am using (1.2.2) You would do the following:

conn = MySQLdb(host...)  c = conn.cursor() c.execute('INSERT INTO...') newID = c.lastrowid 

I am leaving this as the correct answer, since it got me pointed in the right direction.