http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.Structure._anonymous_

  "An optional sequence that lists the names of unnamed (anonymous) fields".

If you feed it a string, such as _offset, it will print a very interesting error:

...
  File "C:\roundup\.\roundup\backends\portalocker.py", line 70, in <module>
    class A_OFFSET_UNION(Union):
AttributeError: type object '_OFFSET_UNION' has no attribute '_'

Considering complexity that ctypes already has, the simple check that _anonymous_ is a sequence (and not a string) will make our lifes easier.