How do you safely and efficiently get the row id after an insert with mysql using MySQLdb in python?

Question

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

• id -- Primary key, int, autoincrement
• name -- varchar(50)
• description -- varchar(25

Answer 1

I don't know if there's a MySQLdb specific API for this, but in general you can obtain the last inserted id by SELECTing LAST_INSERT_ID()

It is on a per-connection basis, so you don't risk race conditions if some other client performs an insert as well.