question about django-pagination

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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?

[Lakshman Prasad]

> would I still be able to paginate over the entire list of 10000 objects? Or my list would be shortened to 5 objects?

Its the latter. Your query set will loop only for the size of it's length.

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[Rodrigo Cea]

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. "