How to load data from variable into django paginator? - django

Question

I need to create paginator based on data from variable. Variable is just python lists.
views.py:
def test(request):
db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", # your host, usually localhost
user="pc", # your username
passwd="3346378", # your password
db="mc")
cur = db.cursor()
cur.execute('''SELECT * FROM hello left join hell on hello.Id=hell.Id ''')
row = cur.fetchall()
So, row is lot's of lists. And how can I load it into paginator?
Or one way is to create table and model for data and work with it using Django ORM or something?

Answer 1

Django has built in Paginator class you can check this out: paginator objects and a few examples here: Pagination examples, to use in a view : Using Pagination in view
if it is referencing muliple objects then write plural variable names: so it is rows instead of row
So in your case in the view:
paginator = Paginator(rows, 25) # Show 25 rows per page
page = request.GET.get('page')
rows = paginator.get_page(page)
return render(request, 'example.html', {'rows': rows})
And in HTML:
{% for r in rows %}
{{ r }}<br>
...
{% endfor %}
<div class="pagination">
<span class="step-links">
{% if rows.has_previous %}
« first
previous
{% endif %}
<span class="current">
Page {{ rows.number }} of {{ rows.paginator.num_pages }}.
</span>
{% if rows.has_next %}
next
last »
{% endif %}
</span>
</div>