def clean_semver(cls, version_spec):
        return re.sub(r"([<>=~])\s+?v?", "\\1", version_spec, re.IGNORECASE)
def _load_data(self, directory):
        try:
            with open(directory, 'r') as f:
                data = f.read()
                return literal_eval(data)
        except OSError as e:
            raise