[Python] randint with leading zeros

I want to generate numbers from 00000 to 99999.

With

number=randint(0,99999)


I only generate values without leading zero's, of course, a 23 instead of a 00023. Is there a trick to generate always 5 digit-values in the sense of %05d or do I really need to play a Python-string-trick to fill the missing 0s at front in case len() < 5?

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