def clean_semver(cls, version_spec):
        return re.sub(r"([<>=~])\s+?v?", "\\1", version_spec, re.IGNORECASE)
def residual_with_slice_fn(inp, out):
      inp_sliced = array_ops.slice(inp, [0, 0], [-1, 3])
      return inp_sliced + out