How to format '7' to produce '007'

Question

How would you format '7' to print '007' here:

>>> number = 7
>>> print(number)
7

Ideally, there'd something similar to always showing these decimal places?:

>>> number = 7
>>> print("{:.2f}".format(number))
7.00

I've searched online for a similar solution to this but can't seem to find anything in this format...

Thanks for the help!

A possible solution, https://kite.com/python/answers/how-to-add-leading-zeros-to-a-number-in-python — dvlper, Apr 25 '20 at 13:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '20 at 13:13

You just need to cast 7 using str() and finally use zfill to add leading zeros:

Return a copy of the string left filled with ASCII '0' digits to make a string of length width. A leading sign prefix ('+'/'-') is handled by inserting the padding after the sign character rather than before. The original string is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s).

str(7).zfill(3)
>>> '007'

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '20 at 13:15

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try this

print("{0:0=3d}".format(number))

answered Apr 25 '20 at 13:15

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How to format '7' to produce '007'

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