Reference next item in list: python

Question

I'm making a variation of Codecademy's pyglatin.py to make a translator that accepts and translates multiple words. However, I'm having trouble translating more than one word. I've been able to transfer the raw input into a list and translate the first, but I do not know how to reference the next item in the list. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

def piglatin1():

    pig = 'ay'

    original = raw_input('Enter a phrase:').split(' ')
    L = list(original)
    print L
    i = iter(L)
    item = i.next()


    for item in L:

        if len(item) > 0 and item.isalpha():
            word = item.lower()
            first = word
            if first == "a" or first == "e" or first == "i" or first == "o" or first =="u":
                new_word = word + pig
                print new_word
            else:
                new_word = word[1:] + word[0:1] + pig
            # first word translated    
                L = []
                M = L[:]


                L.append(new_word)

                print L # secondary list created.

                again = raw_input('Translate again? Y/N')
                print again

                if len(again) > 0 and again.isalpha():
                    second_word = again.lower()
                    if second_word == "y":
                        return piglatin()
                    else:
                        print "Okay Dokey!"

        else:
            print 'Letters only please!'
            return piglatin1()

Answer 1

I was working on this problem recently as well and came up with the following solution (rather than use range, use enumerate to get the index).

for index, item in enumerate(L):
    next = index + 1
    if next < len(L):
        print index, item, next

This example shows how to access the current index, the current item, and then the next item in the list (if it exists in the bounds of the list).