How do I get the "id" after INSERT into MySQL database with Python?

Question

I execute an INSERT INTO statement

cursor.execute("INSERT INTO mytable(height) VALUES(%s)",(height))

and I want to get the primary key.

My table has 2 columns:

id      primary, auto increment
height  this is the other column.

How do I get the "id", after I just inserted this?

Answer 1

Use cursor.lastrowid to get the last row ID inserted on the cursor object, or connection.insert_id() to get the ID from the last insert on that connection.

Answer 2

Also, cursor.lastrowid (a dbapi/PEP249 extension supported by MySQLdb):

>>> import MySQLdb
>>> connection = MySQLdb.connect(user='root')
>>> cursor = connection.cursor()
>>> cursor.execute('INSERT INTO sometable VALUES (...)')
1L
>>> connection.insert_id()
3L
>>> cursor.lastrowid
3L
>>> cursor.execute('SELECT last_insert_id()')
1L
>>> cursor.fetchone()
(3L,)
>>> cursor.execute('select @@identity')
1L
>>> cursor.fetchone()
(3L,)

cursor.lastrowid is somewhat cheaper than connection.insert_id() and much cheaper than another round trip to MySQL.

Answer 3

Python DBAPI spec also define 'lastrowid' attribute for cursor object, so...

id = cursor.lastrowid

...should work too, and it's per-connection based obviously.

Answer 4

SELECT @@IDENTITY AS 'Identity';

or

SELECT last_insert_id();

Answer 5

This might be just a requirement of PyMySql in Python, but I found that I had to name the exact table that I wanted the ID for:

In:

cnx = pymysql.connect(host='host',
                            database='db',
                            user='user',
                            password='pass')
cursor = cnx.cursor()
update_batch = """insert into batch set type = "%s" , records = %i, started = NOW(); """
second_query = (update_batch % ( "Batch 1", 22  ))
cursor.execute(second_query)
cnx.commit()
batch_id = cursor.execute('select last_insert_id() from batch')
cursor.close()

batch_id

Out: 5
... or whatever the correct Batch_ID value actually is