jira search_issues() returns nothing

[rich leblanc]

issues = jira.search_issues('project=titan')
print issues
[]

Just returns an empty list, why? No matter what I put in there it always returns an empty list. It works fine thru the gui. There are many issues. I can search for individual issues but cannot get anything from this method.

jira version = 6.1.3

[rich leblanc]

It's from python-jira.

from jira.client import JIRA

options = {'server': 'http://server.name.here'}

jira = JIRA(options, basic_auth=('user', 'password'))
issues = jira.search_issues('project=titan')
print issues
[]

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What language or script is jira.search_issues from? It's not java, so what actually is it?