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

With this code you can find any missing values in a sequence, except the last number. It in only required to input your data into excel file with column name "numbers".

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

data = pd.read_excel("numbers.xlsx")

data_sort=data.sort_values('numbers',ascending=True)
index=list(range(len(data_sort)))
data_sort['index']=index
data_sort['index']=data_sort['index']+1
missing=[]

for i in range (len(data_sort)-1):
    if data_sort['numbers'].iloc[i+1]-data_sort['numbers'].iloc[i]>1:
        gap=data_sort['numbers'].iloc[i+1]-data_sort['numbers'].iloc[i]
        numerator=1
        for j in range (1,gap):          
            mis_value=data_sort['numbers'].iloc[i+1]-numerator
            missing.append(mis_value)
            numerator=numerator+1
print(np.sort(missing))