in the ORDER BY and the WHERE clause respectively

ItemBase

conditions argument.  Not yet covered: tests, documentation examples.

argument to Query.addConditions()

argument when creating queries.

Not yet done: verify that evaluating the formal string representation
of Query works as expected, add tests for the legacy use of a mapping
and verify that the deprecation warning is indeed being raised.

  when creating queries
- While we are at it: eliminate a few more occurences of the old
  legacy ICAT query syntax in the tests

operator of Query may indeed be used to create an equivalent query to
the tests in test_06_query.py where it makes sense

argument in class Query.  Also verify that a DeprecationWarning is
raised.

argument when creating queries.  Eliminate a few more occurrences of
the old legacy ICAT query syntax on the way.

to use the new format of the conditions argument when creating
queries.

IDS" to use the new format of the conditions argument when creating
queries.

in the ORDER BY clause

conditions argument

order of the keyword arguments and the order of calling the methods
during initialization.  This should essentially only have an impact on
the presentation of the module reference page in the documentation.

of the conditions argument is done in test_06_query.py