Django Pagination (with search query)

home.html

    {% for article in articles %}
        {% include 'articles/partial/partial_article.html' %}
    {% empty %}
        <h1>Nothing to show</h1>
    {% endfor %}

<!-- Pagination -->
    {% if articles.has_other_pages %}
        <div class="text-center">
            <ul class="pagination pagination-lg text-center">

                {% if articles.has_previous %}
                    <li><a href="?page={{ articles.previous_page_number }}
                        {% if request.GET.q %}&q={{ request.GET.q }}{% endif %}">&laquo;</a></li>
                {% else %}
                    <li class="disabled"><span>&laquo;</span></li>
                {% endif %}

                {% if start_index %}
                    <li><a href="?page={{ start_index }}">{{ start_index }}</a></li>
                    <li class="disabled"><span>&mldr;</span></li>
                {% endif %}

                {% for i in page_range %}
                    {% if articles.number == i %}
                        <li class="active"><span>{{ i }} <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></span></li>
                    {% else %}
                        <li><a href="?page={{ i }}
                            {% if request.GET.q %}&q={{ request.GET.q }}{% endif %}">{{ i }}</a></li>
                    {% endif %}
                {% endfor %}


                {% if articles.has_next %}
                    {% if end_index %}
                        <li class="disabled"><span>&mldr;</span></li>
                        <li><a href="?page={{ end_index }}">{{ end_index }}</a></li>
                    {% endif %}
                    <li><a href="?page={{ articles.next_page_number }}
                        {% if request.GET.q %}&q={{ request.GET.q }}{% endif %}">&raquo;</a></li>
                {% else %}
                    <li class="disabled"><span>&raquo;</span></li>
                {% endif %}

            </ul>
        </div>
    {% endif %}
<!-- Pagination -->

views.py

# pagination looks like:
# 1...3 4 5 6 7 8 9...11, where '6' is active element

def _articles(request, articles):
    paginator = Paginator(articles, 4)

    try:
        page = int(request.GET.get('page', '1'))
    except:
        page = 1

    try:
        articles = paginator.page(page)
    except PageNotAnInteger:
        articles = paginator.page(1)
    except EmptyPage:
        articles = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)

    # Get the index of the current page
    index = articles.number - 1
    print(index)
    # This value is maximum index of pages, so the last page - 1
    max_index = len(paginator.page_range)
    print(max_index)
    # range of 7, calculate where to slice the list
    start_index = index - 3 if index >= 3 else 0
    end_index = index + 4 if index <= max_index - 4 else max_index
    print(end_index)
    # new page range
    page_range = paginator.page_range[start_index:end_index]

    # showing first and last links in pagination
    if index >= 4:
        start_index = 1
    if end_index-index >= 4 and end_index != max_index:
        end_index = max_index
    else:
        end_index = None

    context = {
        'articles': articles,
        'page_range': page_range,
        'start_index': start_index,
        'end_index': end_index,
    }

    if not request.user.is_anonymous:
        user_articles = Article.objects.get_published().filter(author=request.user)
        if user_articles:
            context = {
                'articles': articles,
                'user_articles': user_articles,
                'page_range': page_range,
                'start_index': start_index,
                'end_index': end_index,
            }

    return render(request, 'articles/home.html', context)
  
  def home(request):
    articles = Article.objects.get_published()
    query = request.GET.get('q')  # also add {% if request.GET.q %}&q={{ request.GET.q }}{% endif %}
                                  # in template home.html in pagination section
    if query is not None and query != '':
        articles = articles.filter(
            Q(title__icontains=query) |
            Q(content__icontains=query) |
            Q(short_description__icontains=query) |
            Q(author__username__icontains=query)
        ).distinct()
    return _articles(request, articles)

Helped me fix my code, had issues with query passing. Thank you (Y)

Thanks man! Saved me a lot of time! :)