I am trying to split a list of unknown length into multiple lists based on the difference between elements in the list in python. The list contains consecutive integers until a "break" occurs, and another set of consecutive integers begins. I have been trying to get the syntax right with a very basic example, but have had some trouble:
a = [1,2,3,4,5,9,10,11,12,13]
Ideally I'd like to break this into two lists:
b = [1,2,3,4,5] and c = [9,10,11,12,13] based on the difference between elements 5 and 9 in the list.
I have tried using different forms of list comprehension, but haven't gotten the commands quite right.
b = [e for e in a if e+1 - e == 1]
print b
b = [1,2,3,4,5,9,10,11,12,13]
When I thought it would return b=[1,2,3,4,5]
Any insight would be great. I have been searching around and just have not found a way to reliably split the list by the occurrence and an unknown break in the sequence of numbers. I have considered manipulating the range() function in conjunction with remove() or del() to get ride of the parts that I do not need in the list, but haven't found a workable way to do it using those functions either. I am a novice programmer that works mainly in the arcpy module for arcgis, and have limited actual programming experience outside of working in arcgis.
