You can use the following recipe:
from operator import itemgetter
from itertools import groupby
full_list = [0,1,2,3,10,11,12,59]
cont = [map(itemgetter(1), g) for k, g in groupby(enumerate(full_list), lambda (i,x):i-x)]
# [[0, 1, 2, 3], [10, 11, 12], [59]]