array([ 1,  2,  3,  4,  4.5,  5,  7,  9, 11])

from scipy.interpolate import interp1d

a = np.array([1,2,0,4,0,5,0,0,11])
b = a[np.nonzero(a)]
brange = np.arange(b.shape[0])
interp = interp1d(brange, b)

print (interp(1), interp(1.5), interp(2), interp(2.5), interp(3))
#out: 2.0 3.0 4.0 4.5 5.0