Cassandra pagination: How to use get_slice to query a Cassandra 1.2 database from Python using the cql library

Question

I have a Cassandra 1.2 cluster and I\'m using it from Python using the cql library. Now I need to implement some paging functionality that seems pretty straightforward using

Answer 1

An update for modern versions of Cassandra. All of the CQL3 native drivers can use server side paging (starting with Cassandra 2.0), so no need to go through the hassle of setting it up manually anymore.