Calculating a range of an exact number of values in Python

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Hello,

I'm building a range between two numbers (floats) and I'd like this range to be of an exact fixed length (no more, no less). range and arange work with steps, instead. To put things into pseudo Python, this is what I'd like to achieve:

start_value = -7.5
end_value = 0.1
my_range = my_range_function(star_value, end_value, length=6)

print my_range
[-7.50,-5.98,-4.46,-2.94,-1.42,0.10]

This is essentially equivalent to the R function seq which can specify a sequence of a given length. Is this possible in Python?

Thanks.

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