The following program should print "0xdead" but instead prints "0x0".  This came from the following stackoverflow question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3824617/python-structure-always-stuck-at-0-no-matter-what-value-you-assign-to-it

import ctypes
class Blah(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("a", ctypes.c_uint64, 64),
                ("b", ctypes.c_uint16, 16),
                ("c", ctypes.c_uint8, 8),
                ("d", ctypes.c_uint8, 8)]

x = Blah(0xDEAD,0xBEEF,0x44,0x12)
print(hex(x.a))