django pagination and RawQuerySet

Question

is there a way to paginate a rawqueryset using django's inbuilt pagination? when i cast it to a list , it throws an error in my face ...TypeError: expected string or Unicode object, NoneType found. Is there a way around this?

Answer 1

I managed to achieve it using the following:

paginator = Paginator(files, 12)
paginator._count = len(list(files))

The code in django.core.paginator.py:

• checks for whether _count is set
• if not then tries to run .count() which doesn't exist
• if not then tries plain len

len on a raw_queryset doesn't work but converting the actual paginator object to a list works find for me in Django 1.3