Question

I have this great pyodbc lib. I try the code below, it supposed to insert a row and return the row id but it didn’t work. by the way I’m using sql server 2005 on server and client is windows os

...
con = pyodbc.connect('conectionString', autocommit = True)
cur = con.execute(
                  "insert into sometable values('something');
                  select scope_identity() as id"
                  )
for id in cur:
   print id
...

some idea?

Answer 1

Try this, one statement with the OUTPUT clause

cur = con.execute(
         "insert into sometable OUTPUT INSERTED.idcolumn values('something')"
         )
row = cur.fetchone()
lastrowid = row[0]

Edit: This should get around the issue commented by Joe S.