Split the list view code up in three pieces 1. getListContents which returns the required contents dictionary 2. _list which returns the response for a specified list of contents 3. list which constructs just one content dict and passes it to _list This way it is easier to do step 1 and 2 in other code than list(), which makes it possible to display multiple list pages (by calling getListContents multiple times and passing the result to _list).

class WKTAdaptor(object):
    """
    This provides an adaptor for Geometries sent to the
    MySQL and Oracle database backends.
    """
    def __init__(self, geom):
        self.wkt = geom.wkt
        self.srid = geom.srid

    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.wkt == other.wkt and self.srid == other.srid 

    def __str__(self):
        return self.wkt