Generate a sequence of random numbers that sum up to 1?

[Mel Wilson]

Anthony Liu wrote:
> I am at my wit's end.
> 
> I want to generate a certain number of random numbers.
>  This is easy, I can repeatedly do uniform(0, 1) for
> example.
> 
> But, I want the random numbers just generated sum up
> to 1 . 
> 
> I am not sure how to do this.  Any idea?  Thanks.

numbers.append (random.uniform (0, 1.0-sum(numbers)))

might help, perhaps.

or

scaled = [x/sum(numbers) for x in numbers]

         Mel.
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