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On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:11:10 PM UTC+1, Norah Jones wrote:
> I want to create a random float array of size 100, with the values in the array ranging from 0 to 5. I have tried random.sample(range(5),100) but that does not work. How can i get what i want to achieve?

Use numpy

import numpy as np
np.random.uniform(0, 5, 100)

# note that the values are from the interval [0, 5)

Maarten