Yes. Always retrieve 11 records and display 10. Display the next button only if the 11th record exists.
On Nov 8, 9:48 pm, mdmcginn <michael.d.mcgin...@gmail.com> wrote: > My app retrieves 10 records at a time, and the user can click Next to > view each page in order . That works until they reach the end of the > records, where they get IndexError: list index out of range. > > To work around that problem, I wrote the following exception handling: > > try: > redirect(URL(r=request,f='respond', args=p.id+1)) > except IndexError: > redirect(URL(r=request,f='index')) > > Which doesn't seem to work - I still get the error. Is there a better > solution? > > I haven't yet figured out how to write logic that says "When the user > gets near the end, retrieve another 10 records so he doesn't run out."
