You can paginate whatever you want. From the docs:
"Note that you can give Paginator a list/tuple, a Django QuerySet, or
any other object with a count() or __len__() method. "
On Dec 19, 3:33 am, Continuation <selforgani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the django-pagination, it uses the example:
> {% autopaginate object_list %}
>
> My question is does object_list have to be the **entire** list over
> which I want to paginate, or can I limit the length of object_list? If
> I limit the length of object_list, will autopaginate still go through
> the entire list?
>
> As an example, say I want to paginate over the list a.field_set.all().
> Let's say that list has 10000 objects. I might not want my database to
> return such a large result set. So I might want to do something like:
>
> object_list = a.field_set()[:5]
>
> Now if I use {% autopaginate object_list %} in my template, would I
> still be able to paginate over the entire list of 10000 objects? Or my
> list would be shortened to 5 objects?
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