Invalid field type with DeleteField_management

KP — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:24:43 GMT

I'm running a script that places all of the fields that I want to delete from a feature class into a list(ListName), but when I run the DeleteField_management I receive the error -

Failed to execute. Parameters are not vaild. Invalid field type

import arcpy
import os

arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/Data_new/Temp/Default.gdb"

arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True

parcel_clip2 = "C:/Data_new/Temp/Default.gdb/parcel_clip2"

fieldList = arcpy.ListFields(parcel_clip2)
ListName = []
fieldstokeep = ["Name1", "Address1", "City", "State", "ZipCode"]
for field in fieldList:
    ListName.append(field.name)
    
index = 0
while index < len(ListName):
    if ListName[index] in fieldstokeep:
        ListName.remove(ListName[index])
    else:
        index = index + 1
    

print(ListName)

arcpy.DeleteField_management (parcel_clip2,  ListName)

del ListName
del parcel_clip2
del fieldList
del fieldstokeep

I've been at this awhile and I don;t understand what the issue is. Any advice?

Thanks!

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