Deleting feature classes from a geodatabase using arcpy.ListFeatureClasses()

Question

Following up on Using FeatureClassToFeatureClass from list to concatenated list?

The error I get is "Parsing error SyntaxError: invalid syntax (line 10)".

Using the methods from above I am unable to get following to work.

I want to delete selected feature classes using filtered list. This example is a simplified version of what I need.

# Import arcpy module
import os, fnmatch, arcpy
arcpy.env.workspace = r"D:\_StuData\GIS\Projects\PersonalProjects\Product\test.gdb"

# variables:
fcs = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses() 
filtered = fnmatch.filter(fcs, '*copy')

# Delete selected fcs
for fc in filtered
    arcpy.Delete_management(fc)

Answer 1

After you supplied the error, I noticed you didn't use a colon at the end of line 10. You should replace lines 10 and 11 with the following lines.

for fc in filtered:
  if arcpy.Exists(fc):
    arcpy.Delete_management(fc)

Chances are you'd never have it try to delete one that doesn't exist but this way, it keeps deleting if it DOES find one that doesn't exist (maybe you or someone else deleted it before it got there). I find that to be a good practice.