Hello

So I'm wondering if there's a built-in/better way of calculating the duration of a signal that alternates between 0 and 1. Basically, I want to get the time duration between a set of continuous '1's and then get the mean for every sequence of continuous 1s found.

I don't know if I'm making sense, but something like: [1,1,1][0,0][1,1,1,1] -- There are two sequences and I want to get the duration of those sequences and divide them by 2 to get the mean.

I was able to create a solution by using/abusing iterrows to store the sequences into a list. Then I'd iterate through the list of series, calculate total seconds by taking the difference between last date and first date, store that duration in a list, iterate through that duration list and calculate the mean from there.

My solution is quite slow though, and it takes a few seconds to run on a timeseries of ~80krows. Who know how bad it'll get if I need to increase the number of rows in the future.

I figured, something like this is probably a very common operation so there must be a better solution out there. Any help with this problem is really appreciated. Thanks in advance.