In python, how does one efficiently find the largest consecutive set of numbers in a list that are not necessarily adjacent?

Question

For instance, if I have a list

[1,4,2,3,5,4,5,6,7,8,1,3,4,5,9,10,11]

This algorithm should return [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11].

To cl

Answer 1

Not that clever, not O(n), could use a bit of optimization. But it works.

def longest(seq):
  result = []
  for v in seq:
    for l in result:
      if v == l[-1] + 1:
        l.append(v)
    else:
      result.append([v])
  return max(result, key=len)