python - Checking if first letter of string is in uppercase

Question

I want to create a function that would check if first letter of string is in uppercase. This is what I've came up with so far:

def is_lowercase(word):
    if word[0] in range string.ascii_lowercase:
        return True
    else:
        return False

When I try to run it I get this error:

    if word[0] in range string.ascii_lowercase
                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Can someone have a look and advise what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Why not use str.isupper();

In [2]: word = 'asdf'   
In [3]: word[0].isupper()
Out[3]: False

In [4]: word = 'Asdf'   
In [5]: word[0].isupper()
Out[5]: True