Identify groups of continuous numbers in a list

Question

I\'d like to identify groups of continuous numbers in a list, so that:

myfunc([2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20])

Returns:

Answer 1

Here it is something that should work, without any import needed:

def myfunc(lst):
    ret = []
    a = b = lst[0]                           # a and b are range's bounds

    for el in lst[1:]:
        if el == b+1: 
            b = el                           # range grows
        else:                                # range ended
            ret.append(a if a==b else (a,b)) # is a single or a range?
            a = b = el                       # let's start again with a single
    ret.append(a if a==b else (a,b))         # corner case for last single/range
    return ret