Filtering Django Admin by Null/Is Not Null

Question

I have a simple Django model like:

class Person(models.Model):
    referrer = models.ForeignKey(\'self\', null=True)
    ...

In this model\

Answer 1

Since Django 1.4 brings some changes to filters, I thought I save someone the time I just spent modifying the code from Cerin's accepted answer to work with Django 1.4 rc1.

I have a model that has TimeField(null=True) named "started" and I wanted to filter for null and non-null values, so it's prety much the same problem as OP.
So, here is what worked for me...

Defined (actually included) these in admin.py:

from django.contrib.admin.filters import SimpleListFilter

class NullFilterSpec(SimpleListFilter):
    title = u''

    parameter_name = u''

    def lookups(self, request, model_admin):
        return (
            ('1', _('Has value'), ),
            ('0', _('None'), ),
        )

    def queryset(self, request, queryset):
        kwargs = {
        '%s'%self.parameter_name : None,
        }
        if self.value() == '0':
            return queryset.filter(**kwargs)
        if self.value() == '1':
            return queryset.exclude(**kwargs)
        return queryset



class StartNullFilterSpec(NullFilterSpec):
    title = u'Started'
    parameter_name = u'started'

Than just used them in ModelAdmin:

class SomeModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_filter =  (StartNullFilterSpec, )