if field.name in fieldList

BenLeslie1

Hi

I'm trying to do a script that will search a bunch of features and tell me if they contain a certain field name or not:

fcs = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses()

for fc in fcs:
     fieldList = arcpy.ListFields(fc)
     if "CAT" in fieldList:
          print fc + " Yes"
     else:
          print fc + " Nope"

I think I've figured out that I somehow need to tell it is look for "CAT" as a field name in fieldList but I'm not sure how to write it.

I've tried a few things such as:

     if "CAT" in fieldList.field.name

but I haven't hit upon the correct syntax.

Can you help?

(just thought I'd add that everything comes out as "Nope", which isn't correct, using the above code)

AntGiles

Ben,

The best way would be to to create a boolean variable that you set to true if the field name exists, something like:

for fc in fcs:

  fieldList = arcpy.ListFields(fc)

  fieldExists = false 

     for field in fieldList:

        if field.name == "CAT":

          fieldExists = true

  if(fieldExists):

    print fc + " Yes"

  else:

    print fc + " No"