bit by bit display of list contents

I'm very stuck at the minute, I have a database cgi script which perfroms searches on the database and returns a hitlist. The problem is that this hitlist can become very large, and to show all the results at the same time is impossible. I therefore want to be able to display sections of the hitlist and provide a link to the next section, however I am at a loss with reguard to how I do this.

at the minute the code goes something like this:

for smile in result_list:
print result_html % (smile, smile, smile, tdt_display(smile))

I'm not gonna put all the details of the code, but basicaly I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction?

I know how to slice the list, and can do that ok, it's the link to the other section that I have problems with. Ideally I would like a javascript 'onclick' command to induce a python command is this possible?

tHaNkS

Hi,
Using javascript you can connect a onclick with a form submit order. If you created a hidden form whose action where send the first and last number of item to a python script it should do the job. The only problem is that I don't know a way to keep in memory the list, so this way you should look for it again.Hope it helps.

I have looked at using the hidden field on a form to pass the values of the python list slice, but I don't see how I am able to then pass subsequent values for the next python list slice and the one after, ect, ect...
without having to have a new set of html with the different values in it. I don't think I am being very clear about this, but I don't really know what to do.
The saving of the list is fine, as I have taken care of that, it's just the display that I am having problems with.

Thanks