Taking subarrays from numpy array with given stride/stepsize

Question

Lets say I have a Python Numpy array a.

a = numpy.array([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11])

I want to create a matrix of sub sequences

Answer 1

Modified version of @Divakar's code with checking to ensure that memory is contiguous and that the returned array cannot be modified. (Variable names changed for my DSP application).

def frame(a, framelen, frameadv):
"""frame - Frame a 1D array
a - 1D array
framelen - Samples per frame
frameadv - Samples between starts of consecutive frames
   Set to framelen for non-overlaping consecutive frames

Modified from Divakar's 10/17/16 11:20 solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40084931/taking-subarrays-from-numpy-array-with-given-stride-stepsize

CAVEATS:
Assumes array is contiguous
Output is not writable as there are multiple views on the same memory

"""

if not isinstance(a, np.ndarray) or \
   not (a.flags['C_CONTIGUOUS'] or a.flags['F_CONTIGUOUS']):
    raise ValueError("Input array a must be a contiguous numpy array")

# Output
nrows = ((a.size-framelen)//frameadv)+1
oshape = (nrows, framelen)

# Size of each element in a
n = a.strides[0]

# Indexing in the new object will advance by frameadv * element size
ostrides = (frameadv*n, n)
return np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided(a, shape=oshape,
                                       strides=ostrides, writeable=False)