Python nicest way to pad zeroes to a string

Original web page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/339007/nicest-way-to-pad-zeroes-to-a-string

Strings:

>>> n = '4'
>>> print n.zfill(3)
004

And for numbers:

>>> n = 4
>>> print '%03d' % n
004
>>> print format(n, '03') # python >= 2.6
004
>>> print '{0:03d}'.format(n)  # python >= 2.6
004
>>> print '{foo:03d}'.format(foo=n)  # python >= 2.6
004
>>> print('{:03d}'.format(n))  # python >= 2.7 + python3
004
>>> print('{0:03d}'.format(n))  # python 3
004
>>> print(f'{n:03}') # python >= 3.6
004

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