My paginator

Django paginator

from django.core.paginator import Paginator, InvalidPage, EmptyPage, PageNotAnInteger

def do_paginator( origin_list, page, max_item_per_page=MAX_ITEM_PER_PAGE):
    """
    A paginator like doc says, but using default setting
    in the views.py, I'd like to put it this way
    do_paginator(list, request.GET.get('page'))
    """
    try:
        max_item_per_page = int(max_item_per_page)
    except:
        max_item_per_page = getattr(settings, 'MAX_ITEM_PER_PAGE', 10)
        
    paginator = Paginator( origin_list, max_item_per_page )
    
    try:
        origin_list = paginator.page(page)
    except PageNotAnInteger:
        # If page is not an integer, deliver first page.
        origin_list = paginator.page(1)
    except EmptyPage:
        # If page is out of range (e.g. 9999), deliver last page of results.
        origin_list = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)

    return origin_list