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[3.0.x] Fixed #31103 -- Improved pagination topic documentation.
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Under the hood, all methods of pagination use the
:class:`~django.core.paginator.Paginator` class. It does all the heavy lifting
of actually splitting a ``QuerySet`` into parts and handing them over to other
components.
of actually splitting a ``QuerySet`` into :class:`~django.core.paginator.Page`
objects.

Example
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=========================

:class:`django.views.generic.list.ListView` provides a builtin way to paginate
the displayed list. You can do this by adding
the displayed list. You can do this by adding a
:attr:`~django.views.generic.list.MultipleObjectMixin.paginate_by` attribute to
your view class, for example::

from django.views.generic import ListView

from myapp.models import Contacts
from myapp.models import Contact

class ContactsList(ListView):
class ContactList(ListView):
paginate_by = 2
model = Contacts
model = Contact

The only thing your users will be missing is a way to navigate to the next or
previous page. To achieve this, add links to the next and previous page, like
shown in the below example ``list.html``.

.. _using-paginator-in-view:

Using ``Paginator`` in a view
=============================

Here's a slightly more complex example using
:class:`~django.core.paginator.Paginator` in a view to paginate a queryset. We
give both the view and the accompanying template to show how you can display
the results. This example assumes you have a ``Contacts`` model that has
already been imported.

The view function looks like this::

from django.core.paginator import Paginator
from django.shortcuts import render

def listing(request):
contact_list = Contacts.objects.all()
paginator = Paginator(contact_list, 25) # Show 25 contacts per page

page = request.GET.get('page')
contacts = paginator.get_page(page)
return render(request, 'list.html', {'contacts': contacts})

In the template :file:`list.html`, you'll want to include navigation between
pages along with any interesting information from the objects themselves:
This limits the number of objects per page and adds a ``paginator`` and
``page_obj`` to the ``context``. To allow your users to navigate between pages,
add links to the next and previous page, in your template like this:

.. code-block:: html+django

{% for contact in contacts %}
{% for contact in page_obj %}
{# Each "contact" is a Contact model object. #}
{{ contact.full_name|upper }}<br>
...
{% endfor %}

<div class="pagination">
<span class="step-links">
{% if contacts.has_previous %}
{% if page_obj.has_previous %}
<a href="?page=1">&laquo; first</a>
<a href="?page={{ contacts.previous_page_number }}">previous</a>
<a href="?page={{ page_obj.previous_page_number }}">previous</a>
{% endif %}

<span class="current">
Page {{ contacts.number }} of {{ contacts.paginator.num_pages }}.
Page {{ page_obj.number }} of {{ page_obj.paginator.num_pages }}.
</span>

{% if contacts.has_next %}
<a href="?page={{ contacts.next_page_number }}">next</a>
<a href="?page={{ contacts.paginator.num_pages }}">last &raquo;</a>
{% if page_obj.has_next %}
<a href="?page={{ page_obj.next_page_number }}">next</a>
<a href="?page={{ page_obj.paginator.num_pages }}">last &raquo;</a>
{% endif %}
</span>
</div>

.. _using-paginator-in-view:

Using ``Paginator`` in a view function
======================================

Here's an example using :class:`~django.core.paginator.Paginator` in a view
function to paginate a queryset::

from django.core.paginator import Paginator
from django.shortcuts import render

from myapp.models import Contact

def listing(request):
contact_list = Contact.objects.all()
paginator = Paginator(contact_list, 25) # Show 25 contacts per page.

page_number = request.GET.get('page')
page_obj = paginator.get_page(page_number)
return render(request, 'list.html', {'page_obj': page_obj})

In the template :file:`list.html`, you can include navigation between pages in
the same way as in the template for the ``ListView`` above.

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