There's probably a one-liner function out there that tells you the last number in a list of numbers, but this works:import arcpy
input = "H:/GIS_Data/TEMP_GDB.gdb/feattoline" # your feature class
field = "OBJECTID A" # the name of the field, sorted ascending
rows = arcpy.SearchCursor(input,"","","",field)
for row in rows:
number = row.OBJECTID
This code simply sorts the values in the field "OBJECTID," assigns and overwrites that value to the variable "number" for each increasing value. Finally, you're left with the largest value of "OBJECTID." Then, make pStart = number.