Efficient way to find missing elements in an integer sequence

Question

Suppose we have two items missing in a sequence of consecutive integers and the missing elements lie between the first and last elements. I did write a code that does accomp

Answer 1

 a=[1,2,3,7,5,11,20]
 b=[]
 def miss(a,b):
     for x in range (a[0],a[-1]):
        if x not in a:
            b.append(x)
     return b
 print (miss(a,b))

ANS:[4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]

works for sorted,unsorted , with duplicates too