How can I remove Nan from list Python/NumPy

Question

I have a list that countain values, one of the values I got is \'nan\'

countries= [nan, \'USA\', \'UK\', \'France\']

I tried to remove it,

Answer 1

The question has changed, so to has the answer:

Strings can't be tested using math.isnan as this expects a float argument. In your countries list, you have floats and strings.

In your case the following should suffice:

cleanedList = [x for x in countries if str(x) != 'nan']

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Old answer

In your countries list, the literal 'nan' is a string not the Python float nan which is equivalent to:

float('NaN')

In your case the following should suffice:

cleanedList = [x for x in countries if x != 'nan']