I'm trying to use a ZCatalog for the first time and I'm getting unexpected results. Ultimately I'm trying to be able to search one or more keyword indexes, searching each one with one or more keywords, and be able to either AND or OR across the board, but I can't seem to be able to get AND working within an index. I am using a keyword index on a list field. I have manually updated the catalog and verified the index contents. Zope version is 2.7.0. In a Python script I have : results=context.catalog(categories={'query':['big','shiny'], 'operator':'and'}) If some objects are big, and some are shiny, but none are big and shiny, I get no results - as expected. But if some objects are big, and there are no objects that are shiny, then I get all objects that are big - I expected to get no results. Is this by design or am I doing something wrong ? Thanks, Alex