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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def ver_str_to_tuple(ver_str):
 """Convert a version string into a version tuple."""

    out = []
    for x in ver_str.split("."):
        try:
            x = int(x)
        except ValueError:
            pass
        out.append(x)
    return tuple(out)