leetcode 239. Sliding Window Maximum

Given an array nums, there is a sliding window of size k which is moving from the very left of the array to the very right. You can only see the k numbers in the window. Each time the sliding window moves right by one position. Return the max sliding window.

Example:

Input: nums = [1,3,-1,-3,5,3,6,7], and k = 3
Output: [3,3,5,5,6,7] 
Explanation: 

Window position                Max
---------------               -----
[1  3  -1] -3  5  3  6  7       3
 1 [3  -1  -3] 5  3  6  7       3
 1  3 [-1  -3  5] 3  6  7       5
 1  3  -1 [-3  5  3] 6  7       5
 1  3  -1  -3 [5  3  6] 7       6
 1  3  -1  -3  5 [3  6  7]      7

Note: 
You may assume k is always valid, 1 ≤ k ≤ input array's size for non-empty array.

Follow up:
Could you solve it in linear time?

题目滑动窗口，返回窗口内最大值数组。

做了一个优化，保存最大值。但是并不能做到线性，代码如下：

class Solution(object):
    def maxSlidingWindow(self, nums, k):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :type k: int
        :rtype: List[int]
        """
        if len(nums) == 0:
            return []
        m = max(nums[0:k])
        ret = [m]
        for i in range(1,len(nums)-k+1):
            if nums[i+k-1] >= m :
                m = nums[i+k-1]
            elif nums[i-1] == m:
                m = max(nums[i:i+k])
            ret.append(m)
        return ret