How to remove the adjacent duplicate value in a numpy array?

Question

Given a numpy array, I wish to remove the adjacent duplicate non-zero value and all the zero value. For instance, for an array like that: [0,0,1,1,1,2,2,0,1,3,3,3]

Answer 1

Here's one way:

In [62]: x
Out[62]: array([0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 3, 3, 3])

In [63]: selection = np.ones(len(x), dtype=bool)

In [64]: selection[1:] = x[1:] != x[:-1]

In [65]: selection &= x != 0

In [66]: x[selection]
Out[66]: array([1, 2, 1, 3])