def clean_semver(cls, version_spec):
        return re.sub(r"([<>=~])\s+?v?", "\\1", version_spec, re.IGNORECASE)
def add_dimension(cls, dataset, dimension, dim_pos, values, vdim):
        data = dataset.data.copy()
        if dimension.name not in data:
            data[dimension.name] = values
        return data