django-bitfield
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Provides a BitField like class (using a BigIntegerField) for your Django models.

Requirements
============

* Django >= 1.11 (a newer version with current security support is
  highly recommended).
* PostgreSQL (see notes)

**Notes:**

- SQLite does not support save operations using a ``Bit`` (per the example under Usage).
- MySQL fails on most queries related to BitField's.

Installation
============

Install it with pip (or easy_install)::

	pip install django-bitfield

Usage
=====

First you'll need to attach a BitField to your class. This acts as a BigIntegerField (BIGINT) in your database::

	from bitfield import BitField

	class MyModel(models.Model):
	    flags = BitField(flags=(
	        'awesome_flag',
	        'flaggy_foo',
	        'baz_bar',
	    ))

Flags can also be defined with labels::

	class MyModel(models.Model):
	    flags = BitField(flags=(
	        ('awesome_flag', 'Awesome Flag!'),
	        ('flaggy_foo', 'Flaggy Foo'),
	        ('baz_bar', 'Baz (bar)'),
	    ))

Now you can use the field using very familiar Django operations::

	# Create the model
	o = MyModel.objects.create(flags=0)

	# Add awesome_flag (does not work in SQLite)
	MyModel.objects.filter(pk=o.pk).update(flags=F('flags').bitor(MyModel.flags.awesome_flag))

	# Set flags manually to [awesome_flag, flaggy_foo]
	MyModel.objects.filter(pk=o.pk).update(flags=MyModel.flags.awesome_flag | MyModel.flags.flaggy_foo)

	# Remove awesome_flag (does not work in SQLite)
	MyModel.objects.filter(pk=o.pk).update(flags=F('flags').bitand(~MyModel.flags.awesome_flag))

	# Find by awesome_flag
	MyModel.objects.filter(flags=MyModel.flags.awesome_flag)

	# Exclude by awesome_flag
	MyModel.objects.filter(flags=~MyModel.flags.awesome_flag)

	# Test awesome_flag
	if o.flags.awesome_flag:
	    print "Happy times!"

	# List all flags on the field
	for f in o.flags:
	    print f

	# Get a flag label
	print o.flags.get_label('awesome_flag')

Enjoy!

Admin
=====

To use the widget in the admin, you'll need to import the classes and then update or create
a ModelAdmin with these formfield_overrides lines in your admin.py::

    from bitfield import BitField
    from bitfield.forms import BitFieldCheckboxSelectMultiple

    class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
	formfield_overrides = {
		BitField: {'widget': BitFieldCheckboxSelectMultiple},
	}
	
    admin.site.register(MyModel, MyModelAdmin)


There is also a ``BitFieldListFilter`` list filter (Django 1.4 or newer).
To use it set ``list_filter`` ModelAdmin option::

    list_filter = (
            ('flags', BitFieldListFilter,)
            )

BitFieldListFilter is in ``bitfield.admin`` module::

    from bitfield.admin import BitFieldListFilter

Changelog
=========

2.4.0 - 2026-08-02:

- Add support for Python 3.14.

2.2.0 - 2022-07-11:

- Add support for Django 4.0.
- Drop support for Django versions older than 1.11.29.
- Drop support for Python 2.7.

2.1.0 - 2021-05-25:

- Add support for Django 3.1, 3.2 (No changes needed).
- Add support for Python 3.8, 3.9.
- Fixed multiple bugs with use in the Django admin.
- Removed dead compatibility code.

2.0.1 - 2020-01-25:

- Add support for Django 3.0.

2.0.0 - 2020-01-24:

- Drop support for Django versions below 1.10.
- Use _meta.private_fields instead of deprecated _meta.virtual_fields in CompositeBitField.
- Add testing with python 3.6, 3.7 and Django 2.x to travis configuration.