code: def parse_version_info(version_str):
      """Parse a version string into a tuple.
  
      Args:
          version_str (str): The version string.
      Returns:
          tuple[int | str]: The version info, e.g., "1.3.0" is parsed into
              (1, 3, 0), and "2.0.0rc1" is parsed into (2, 0, 0, 'rc1').
      """
      version_info = []
      for x in version_str.split("."):
          if x.isdigit():
              version_info.append(int(x))
          elif x.find("rc") != -1:
              patch_version = x.split("rc")
              version_info.append(int(patch_version[0]))
              version_info.append(f"rc{patch_version[1]}")
      return tuple(version_info)
  
label_desc: Use image node_id 1 for calling a global function with example usage: parse_version_info(version_str) and returns: tuple