Drawbacks of using an integer as a bitfield?
- by Mark
I have a bunch of boolean options for things like "accepted payment types" which can include things like cash, credit card, cheque, paypal, etc. Rather than having a half dozen booleans in my DB, I can just use an integer and assign each payment method an integer, like so
PAYMENT_METHODS = (
(1<<0, 'Cash'),
(1<<1, 'Credit…