The linked python dsl does pretty well. Not as nice as your reduced dsl but. s = Search(using=client, index="my-index") \ .filter("term", category="sea

The linked python dsl does pretty well. Not as nice as your reduced dsl but. s = Search(using=client, index="my-index") \ .filter("term", category="search") \ .query("match", title="python") \ .query(~Q("match", description="beta"))