Bitwise operator functions provide uniform access to bitwise operators across different backends.
-* :meth:`_sql.ColumnOperators.bitwise_not`.
- Available as a column-level method::
+* :meth:`_sql.ColumnOperators.bitwise_not`, :func:`_sql.bitwise_not`.
+ Available as column-level method, producing a bitwise NOT clause against a parent object::
>>> print(column("x").bitwise_not())
~x
-
- And at the column-expression level::
+
+ And a column-expression-level method, applying bitwise NOT to an individual column expression::
>>> from sqlalchemy import bitwise_not
>>> print(bitwise_not(column("x")))