The MySQLdb documentation mentions conn.insert_id(), however this appears to have been deprecated, maybe? This really should be on the cursor object anyway. And behold! There is a lastrowid on it! It’s just a little bit undocumented
If you try to connect to MySQL with any scripting language running under Apache on OpenBSD, you’re liable to get the error: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) This can be infuriating, since every setting is probably going to either still be the default setting, or be a correct setting; and [...]