old_contents: # Copyright 2012 Rackspace
  #
  # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
  # contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
  # this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
  # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
  # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
  # the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
  #
  #     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  #
  # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  # limitations under the License.
  
  from cliff.formatters.table import TableFormatter
  
  __all__ = [
      'PaginatedListFormatter'
  ]
  
  
  class PaginatedListFormatter(TableFormatter):
      def add_argument_group(self, parser):
          pass
  
      def emit_list(self, column_names, data, stdout, parsed_args):
          super(PaginatedListFormatter, self).emit_list(column_names, data,
                                                        stdout, parsed_args)
  
          returned_limit = getattr(parsed_args, 'returned_limit', None)
          returned_marker = getattr(parsed_args, 'returned_marker', None)
          returned_next_marker = getattr(parsed_args, 'returned_next_marker',
                                         None)
  
          if len(data) >= 1 and returned_limit:
              print ''
  
          if returned_limit:
              print 'Limit: %s' % (returned_limit)
  
          if returned_marker:
              print 'Marker in use: %s' % (returned_marker)
  
          if returned_next_marker:
              print 'Next marker: %s' % (returned_next_marker)
  
          return
  
new_contents: # Copyright 2012 Rackspace
  #
  # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
  # contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
  # this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
  # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
  # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
  # the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
  #
  #     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  #
  # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  # limitations under the License.
  
  from cliff.formatters.table import TableFormatter
  
  __all__ = [
      'PaginatedListFormatter'
  ]
  
  
  class PaginatedListFormatter(TableFormatter):
      def add_argument_group(self, parser):
          pass
  
      def emit_list(self, column_names, data, stdout, parsed_args):
          super(PaginatedListFormatter, self).emit_list(column_names, data,
                                                        stdout, parsed_args)
  
          returned_metadata = getattr(parsed_args, 'returned_metadata', {})
          limit = returned_metadata.get('limit', None)
          marker = returned_metadata.get('marker', None)
          next_marker = returned_metadata.get('next_marker', None)
  
          if len(data) >= 1 and limit:
              print ''
              print 'Displaying: %s' % (len(data))
  
          if limit:
              print 'Limit: %s' % (limit)
  
          if marker:
              print 'Marker in use: %s' % (marker)
  
          if next_marker:
              print 'Next marker: %s' % (next_marker)
  
subject: Use returned_metadata attribute instead and also print number of displayed items.