How to query more than two columns in where clause

I need to query a SharePoint list in the same way that the SharePoint web interface permits i.e. where you enter a value in the search field and the search looks all text columns in the list automatically. To attempt to mimic this behaviour I've tried building my list of fields in the query using a loop, creating each tuple and adding it to the list and finally adding it to the dictionary but as soon as I add more than two field names I get an error 'shareplum.errors.ShareplumRequestError: Shareplum HTTP Failed: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: xxxxx/_vti_bin/lists.asmx' (where xxxxx obscures the real internal URL).

I resorted to a test query that only uses three columns just to see if there was a ceiling for the number of fields permitted in the search condition (my real code was trying to build a list equal to about 30 text fields). Here is my approach for testing:

listQuery = ['Or'] listQuery.append(('Contains', 'Title of proposal', 'underwrite')) listQuery.append(('Contains', 'Vendor', 'underwrite')) listQuery.append(('Contains', 'Classification', 'underwrite'))

query = {'Where': listQuery} list_data = sp_list.GetListItems(query=query)

Is the library limited for the number of criteria allowed in the conditional statement?

Thanks for any help you can provide

jasonrollins / shareplum

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