Check if string is uppercase or lowercase and eliminate

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Check if string is uppercase or lowercase and eliminate - Wolfpack2605 - Jan-01-2018

In the war against Skynet, humans are trying to pass messages to each other without the computers realising what's happening.

To do this, they are using a simple code:

They read the words in reverse order
They only pay attention to the words in the message that start with an uppercase letter
So, something like:

BaSe fOO ThE AttAcK
contains the message:

attack the base
However, the computers have captured you and forced you to write a program so they can understand all the human messages (we won't go into what terrible tortures you've undergone). Your program must work as follows:

code: soMe SuPPLies liKE Ice-cREAm aRe iMPORtant oNly tO THeir cReaTORS. tO DestroY thEm iS pOInTLess.
says: destroy their ice-cream supplies

Notice that, as well as extracting the message, we make every word lowercase so it's easier to read.

This is what I have written so far...

output=[]
b=0
d=0
code=input("code: ")
code=code.split()
print(code)
a=len(code)
print(a)
while b<a:
  c=code[b]
  if c.isupper:
    output.append(c)
    b=b+1
  elif c.islower:
    b=b+1
  else:
    b=b+1
print(output)

Output:['BaSe', 'fOO', 'ThE', 'AttAcK']
4
['BaSe', 'fOO', 'ThE', 'AttAcK']

I need the last line to say "BaSe ThE AttAck" eliminating "fOO" and I will be reversing the string in the last step to make sense, but it is not differentiating between a lowercase word and an uppercase word.
Please help. Thanks

RE: Check if string is uppercase or lowercase and eliminate - Mekire - Jan-01-2018

isupper is a function not an attribute so it needs parenthesis

>>> "Fred".isupper
<built-in method isupper of str object at 0x0348DEC0>
>>> "Fred".isupper()
False
>>> "Fred"[0].isupper()
True

Also you should be using for loops for this, not while loops:

code = "soMe SuPPLies liKE Ice-cREAm aRe iMPORtant oNly tO THeir cReaTORS. tO DestroY thEm iS pOInTLess"

for word in code.split():
    if word[0].isupper():
        print(word)