utils/types: Add version_tuple

Allow for `version_tuple` to be used more generically to enable
natural comparing of versions encoded as strings.

wa/utils/types.py

@@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ def regex(value):
         return re.compile(value)
 
 
+def version_tuple(v):
+    """
+    Converts a version string into a tuple of ints that can be used for natural comparison.
+    """
+    return tuple(map(int, (v.split("."))))
+
+
 __counters = defaultdict(int)