Howto bin series of float values into histogram in Python?

Question

I have set of value in float (always less than 0). Which I want to bin into histogram, i,e. each bar in histogram contain range of value [0,0.150)

The data I have lo

Answer 1

When possible, don't reinvent the wheel. NumPy has everything you need:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import numpy as np

a = np.fromfile(open('file', 'r'), sep='\n')
# [ 0.     0.005  0.124  0.     0.004  0.     0.111  0.112]

# You can set arbitrary bin edges:
bins = [0, 0.150]
hist, bin_edges = np.histogram(a, bins=bins)
# hist: [8]
# bin_edges: [ 0.    0.15]

# Or, if bin is an integer, you can set the number of bins:
bins = 4
hist, bin_edges = np.histogram(a, bins=bins)
# hist: [5 0 0 3]
# bin_edges: [ 0.     0.031  0.062  0.093  0.124]