go one step back and one step forward in a loop with python

Question

I need to loop in a list containing french words and find an asterisk because I want to concatenate the word before the asterisk and the word after the asterisk each time an ast

Answer 1

I think you need a simple code like this:

words = ['les','engage', '*', 'ment', 'de','la']

for n,word in enumerate (words):
    if word == "*":
        exp = words[n-1] + words[n+1]
        print (exp)

Output:

"engagement"

With this output, you can subsequently check with your dictionary.