Given an array of integers, find the first missing positive integer in linear time and constant space

Question

In other words, find the lowest positive integer that does not exist in the array. The array can contain duplicates and negative numbers as well. This question was asked by Stri

Answer 1

Drawback of the above approach is it takes extra space for assigning "max_value" which is not the right solution

def missing_positive_integer(my_list):
    max_value = max(my_list)
    my_list = [num for num in range(1,max(my_list)) if num not in my_list]
    if len(my_list) == 0:
        my_list.append(max_value+1)

    return min(my_list)

my_list = [1,2,3,4,5,8,-1,-12,-3,-4,-8]
missing_positive_integer(my_list)