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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 _version_checker(module, minver):
 """Checks that module has a higher version that minver. params: - module: a module to test - minver: a tuple of versions """

    # We could use LooseVersion, but distutils imports imp which is deprecated
    version_regexp = r'[a-z]?((?:\d|\.)+\d+)(?:\.dev[0-9]+)?'
    version_tags = re.match(version_regexp, module.__version__)
    if not version_tags:
        return False
    version_tags = version_tags.group(1).split(".")
    version_tags = tuple(int(x) for x in version_tags)
    return version_tags >= minver