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How to Build Cursor Pagination with Next and Prev Tokens in Python

A minimal cursor pagination implementation that returns next and previous cursor tokens for navigating a dataset.

pagination cursor api
Python 
from pprint import pprint


def make_cursor(page):
    return f"page:{page:04d}"


def parse_cursor(cursor):
    _, page = cursor.split(":", 1)
    return int(page)


def paginate(all_items, page_size, cursor=None):
    start = parse_cursor(cursor) if cursor else 0
    end = start + page_size
    items = all_items[sta…
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