Is there a Django ModelField that allows for multiple choices, aside from ManyToMany?

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I'd like the user to be able to make multiple selections via the admin interface, and store the result as a list of comma-separated values. A select-multiple or a list of checkboxes would be great. However, I don't need the items in this list of values to refer to any models in particular... I just want a text list of items, plain and simple, hence I don't think the ManyToManyField is the one I'm looking for. What's the quickest way to do this in Django?

Possible duplicate of [Django Model MultipleChoice](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27440861/django-model-multiplechoice) — lechup, Aug 16 '16 at 20:20

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 15 '10 at 16:34

There is a django snippet which does just this: multiple choice model field. It says:

Usually you want to store multiple choices as a manytomany link to another table. Sometimes however it is useful to store them in the model itself. This field implements a model field and an accompanying formfield to store multiple choices as a comma-separated list of values, using the normal CHOICES attribute.

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '13 at 04:17

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Django-multiselectfield does what you require:

https://github.com/goinnn/django-multiselectfield

It's inspired by the snippet that Alexander mentioned.

answered Dec 10 '13 at 04:17

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 07 '10 at 04:58

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This django snippet accomplishes the same with a much smaller footprint.

http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/23/

make sure to update those imports since they are pre version 1.0

answered Dec 07 '10 at 04:58

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Is there a Django ModelField that allows for multiple choices, aside from ManyToMany?

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