diff --git a/examples/linear_model/plot_lasso_and_elasticnet.py b/examples/linear_model/plot_lasso_and_elasticnet.py
index d59ae02a4ae7d..ca2d2425f9f5d 100644
--- a/examples/linear_model/plot_lasso_and_elasticnet.py
+++ b/examples/linear_model/plot_lasso_and_elasticnet.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 y = np.dot(X, coef)
 
 # add noise
-y += 0.01 * np.random.normal((n_samples,))
+y += 0.01 * np.random.normal(size=n_samples)
 
 # Split data in train set and test set
 n_samples = X.shape[0]