def clean_semver(cls, version_spec):
        return re.sub(r"([<>=~])\s+?v?", "\\1", version_spec, re.IGNORECASE)
def literal_eval(node_or_string):
    if isinstance(node_or_string, AST):
        node_or_string = gast_to_ast(node_or_string)
    return _ast.literal_eval(node_or_string)