#I tried python-redmine in the my machine that is running software-factory at http://sftests.com.
#Proj a100 has 27 issues. And the api returns the right output.

>>> from redmine import Redmine
>>> redmine = Redmine('http://sftests.com/redmine', username='admin', password='userpass')
>>> proj = redmine.project.get('a100')
>>> proj.name
u'a100'
>>> proj.issues
<redmine.resultsets.ResourceSet object with Issue resources>
>>> proj.issues[0]
<redmine.resources.Issue #27 "oiuou">
>>> proj.issues[1]
<redmine.resources.Issue #26 "owiefosdfsd">
>>> proj.issues.total_count
27

#I tried with another proj a99 that has 3 issues.
>>> proj2 = redmine.project.get('a99')
>>> proj2.name
u'a99'
>>> proj2.issues.total_count
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/redmine/resultsets.py", line 70, in total_count
    raise ResultSetTotalCountError
redmine.exceptions.ResultSetTotalCountError: Total count is unknown before evaluation

#Don't know why the above error occured.
>>> proj2.issues[0]
<redmine.resources.Issue #30 "odjsdf">
>>> proj2.issues.total_count
3


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Let me look into the curl request output for https://github.com/redhat-cip/pysflib/blob/master/pysflib/sfredmine.py#L120