Gets the number of items to skip.

        :param min_skip: the minimum number of items to skip.

        :return: the number of items to skip.

def get_skip(self, min_skip):
        """
        Gets the number of items to skip.

        :param min_skip: the minimum number of items to skip.

        :return: the number of items to skip.
        """
        if self.skip == None:
            return min_skip
        if self.skip < min_skip:
            return min_skip
        return self.skip