Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

I agree with you and always prefer formatting strings.

Your example shows that at least an alternative to str.zfill() should be 
mentioned in the educational purposes.

With C-style formatting your example can be written more laconically:

    return "%0*x" % (length, ...)

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