http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=415514&group_id=5470&atid=105470
For short ints, Python defers to the platform C library to figure out what
%#x should do.  The code asserted that the platform C returned a string
beginning with "0x".  However, that's not true when-- and only when --the
*value* being formatted is 0.  Changed the code to live with C's inconsistency
here.  In the meantime, the problem does not arise if you format a long 0 (0L)
instead.  However, that's because the code *we* wrote to do %#x conversions on
longs produces a leading "0x" regardless of value.  That's probably wrong too:
we should drop leading "0x", for consistency with C, when (& only when) formatting
0L.  So I changed the long formatting code to do that too.