Max in a sliding window in NumPy array

Question

I want to create an array which holds all the max()es of a window moving through a given numpy array. I\'m sorry if this sounds confusing. I\'ll give an examp

Answer 1

Pandas has a rolling method for both Series and DataFrames, and that could be of use here:

import pandas as pd

lst = [6,4,8,7,1,4,3,5,7,8,4,6,2,1,3,5,6,3,4,7,1,9,4,3,2]
lst1 = pd.Series(lst).rolling(5).max().dropna().tolist()

# [8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 7.0, 7.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 6.0, 6.0, 6.0, 6.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.0, 9.0, 9.0, 9.0, 9.0]

For consistency, you can coerce each element of lst1 to int:

[int(x) for x in lst1]

# [8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 9]