def METHOD_NAME():
    """
    Utility function for generating a random fixed-length integer
    :param id_length: The target length of the string representation of the integer without
                      leading zeros
    :return: a fixed-width integer
    """
    random_int = uuid.uuid4().int
    # Cast to string to get a fixed length
    random_str = str(random_int)[-_EXPERIMENT_ID_FIXED_WIDTH:]
    # append a random int as string to the end of the generated string for as many
    # leading zeros exist in the generated string in order to preserve the total length
    # once cast back to int
    for s in random_str:
        if s == "0":
            random_str = random_str + str(random.randint(0, 9))
        else:
            break
    return int(random_str)