Following up on the above [Related post][1] [1]: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/177355/using-featureclasstofeatureclass-from-list-to-concatenated-list Using the methods from above I am unable to get following to work. Thanks in advance for help. Sorry very basic. 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)