First appearance of a condition in a dataframe

I have a pandas dataframe like this:

    col
0   3
1   5
2   9
3   5
4   6
5   6
6   11
7   6
8   2
9   10

that could be created in Python with the code:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        'col': [3, 5, 9, 5, 6, 6, 11, 6, 2, 10]
    }
)

I want to find the rows that have a value greater than 8, and also there is at least one row before them that has a value less than 4.

So the output should be:

    col
2   9
9   10

You can see that index 0 has a value equal to 3 (less than 4) and then index 2 has a value greater than 8. So we add index 2 to the output and continue to check for the next rows. But we don’t anymore consider indexes 0, 1, 2, and reset the work.

Index 6 has a value equal to 11, but none of the indexes 3, 4, 5 has a value less than 4, so we don’t add index 6 to the output.

Index 8 has a value equal to 2 (less than 4) and index 9 has a value equal to 10 (greater than 8), so index 9 is added to the output.

It’s my priority not to use any for-loops for the code.

Have you any idea about this?

>Solution :

Boolean indexing to the rescue:

# value > 8
m1 = df['col'].gt(8)

# get previous value <4
# check if any occurred previously
m2 = df['col'].shift().lt(4).groupby(m1[::-1].cumsum()).cummax()

df[m1&m2]

Output:

   col
2    9
9   10