Using the API to detect odd tasks

Posted on behalf of a customer. Original post date 2013-06-06.

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to detect some specific task cases using the API. I am writing a Python tool that would look over all of our tasks and pick out two cases that need attention: tasks with a remaining effort (low_effort_remaining & high_effort_remaining) of 0h-0h that have not been tagged as done, and tasks where no estimate has been provided yet (so we can bug people to do that more often). The problem is we've been unable to find a way to differentiate these two cases from each other. When accessed via the API both cases return 0.0 for both low_effort_remaining and high_effort_remaining. Is there a way to tell the two apart?