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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def pad_version(left, right):
 """Returns two sequences of the same length so that they can be compared. The shorter of the two arguments is lengthened by inserting extra zeros before non-integer components. The algorithm attempts to align character components."""

    pair = vcmp(left), vcmp(right)

    mn, mx = min(pair, key=len), max(pair, key=len)

    for idx, c in enumerate(mx):

        try:
            a = mx[idx]
            b = mn[idx]
            if type(a) != type(b):
                mn.insert(idx, 0)
        except IndexError:
            if type(c) is int:
                mn.append(0)
            elif isinstance(c, six.string_types):
                mn.append('')
            else:
                raise Exception("pad_version failed (%s) (%s)" % (left, right))

    return pair