pd.rolling_mean becoming deprecated - alternatives for ndarrays

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EDIT: This question was asked in 2016 and similar questions have been posted on SO years later after the functionality was finally removed, e.g. module 'pandas' has

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EDIT -- Unfortunately, it looks like the new way is not nearly as fast:

New version of Pandas:

In [1]: x = np.random.uniform(size=100)

In [2]: %timeit pd.rolling_mean(x, window=2)
1000 loops, best of 3: 240 µs per loop

In [3]: %timeit pd.Series(x).rolling(window=2).mean()
1000 loops, best of 3: 226 µs per loop

In [4]: pd.__version__
Out[4]: '0.18.0'

Old version:

In [1]: x = np.random.uniform(size=100)

In [2]: %timeit pd.rolling_mean(x,window=2)
100000 loops, best of 3: 12.4 µs per loop

In [3]: pd.__version__
Out[3]: u'0.17.1'