In Access SQL the LAST()
function does not necessarily return the most recently created AutoNumber value. (See here for details.)
What you want is to do a SELECT @@IDENTITY
immediately after you commit your INSERT, like this:
import pyodbc
cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};DBQ=C:\\Users\\Public\\Database1.accdb;')
cursor = cnxn.cursor()
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO Clients (FirstName, LastName) VALUES (?, ?)", ['Mister', 'Gumby'])
cursor.commit()
cursor.execute("SELECT @@IDENTITY AS ID")
row = cursor.fetchone()
print row.ID
cnxn.close()