class PaginationHelper: # The constructor takes in an array of items and an integer indicating # how many items fit within a single page def __init__(self, collection, items_per_page): self.collection = collection self.items_per_page = items_per_page # returns the number of items within the entire collection def item_count(self): return len(self.collection) # returns the number of pages def page_count(self): return int(len(self.collection) / self.items_per_page) + ( len(self.collection) % self.items_per_page > 0 ) # returns the number of items on the given page. page_index is zero based # this method should return -1 for page_index values that are out of range def page_item_count(self, page_index): if page_index < 0 or self.page_count() - 1 < page_index: return -1 if page_index == 0: return len(self.collection[: self.items_per_page]) return len( self.collection[ self.items_per_page * page_index : self.items_per_page * page_index + self.items_per_page ] ) # determines what page an item at the given index is on. Zero based indexes. # this method should return -1 for item_index values that are out of range def page_index(self, item_index): try: self.collection[item_index] if item_index < 0: raise IndexError except IndexError: return -1 return item_index // self.items_per_page