Pagination for very long string Django 1.11 (Python 3.6)

Question

I'm trying to create my own blog site which might contain a very long story (from one field in database). I successfully create pagination for list of records (for the list of stories) on my other views and tried to experiment from the Django documentation. What I did is create an array from the very long string so django pagination can count it.

"views.py"

def post_detail(request, slug=None):  #retrieve
instance = get_object_or_404(Post, slug=slug)

words_list = instance.content.split()
paginator = Paginator(words_list, 500)  # Show 25 contacts per page

page = request.GET.get('page')

try:
    words = paginator.page(page)
except PageNotAnInteger:
    # If page is not an integer, deliver first page.
    words = paginator.page(1)
except EmptyPage:
    # If page is out of range (e.g. 9999), deliver last page of results.
    words = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)

if instance.draft or instance.publish > timezone.now().date():
    if not request.user.is_staff or not request.user.is_superuser:
        raise Http404
share_string = urlquote_plus(instance.content)
context = {
    "title": instance.title,
    "instance": instance,
    "share_string": share_string,
    "word_content": words,
}

return render(request, "post_detail.html", context)

I successfully created it but as a list of words from top to bottom instead of paragraph format which doesn't look good at all.

"post_detail.html"

{% for word_con in word_content %}
            <p class="text-justify">{{ word_con }}</p>
{% endfor %}

I tried to concatinate it using this:

{% for word_con in word_content %}
            <p class="text-justify">{{ ' '.join(word_con) }}</p>
{% endfor %}

but gets an error.

Answer 1

I finally found a workaround to make this work. This is not the best resolution but it works for me.

def post_detail(request, slug=None):  #retrieve
instance = get_object_or_404(Post, slug=slug)

#Detect the breaklines from DB and split the paragraphs using it
tempInstance = instance.content
PaginatedInstance = tempInstance.split("\r\n\r\n")

paginator = Paginator(PaginatedInstance, 5)  #set how many paragraph to show per page

page = request.GET.get('page', 1)

try:
    Paginated = paginator.page(page)
except PageNotAnInteger:
    Paginated = paginator.page(1)
except EmptyPage:
    Paginated = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)

context = {
    "Paginated": Paginated,  #will use this to display the story instead of instance (divided string by paragraph)
}

return render(request, "template.html", context)

Instead of counting all the characters, I decided to split the string per paragraph and saved it in an array and that is the one that I paginated on the template file

{% for paginatedText in Paginated %}
        {{ paginatedText }}
{% endfor %}