[BUG] Accepting prereleases as valid python version

[Abelarm]

Reference Issues/PRs

Fixes: sktime/sktime#7517

Make "rc" python version recognizable during python version checking.
Introducing a parameter prereleases=True
The following code snipped now returns true:

"3.11.0rc1" in SpecifierSet(">3.8", prereleases=True) 

Does your contribution introduce a new dependency? If yes, which one?

No

What should a reviewer concentrate their feedback on?

On the tests regarding checking python versions.

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 95.65217% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 85.77%. Comparing base (306958d) to head (b0359c2).
Report is 93 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...tils/dependencies/tests/test_check_dependencies.py	94.73%	1 Missing ⚠️

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[fkiraly]

Thanks!

Made minor update to the docstring for clarity.

[Abelarm]

I added a super minor change to mirror the exact code of sktime. (it was just an improved error message)

[fkiraly]

Could you kindly add the tests here that are also present in the sktime mirror of this?

Given that we will deduplicate with this as the ultimate location.

[Abelarm]

Could you kindly add the tests here that are also present in the sktime mirror of this?

Given that we will deduplicate with this as the ultimate location.

Solved :)

[fkiraly]

Looks great, thanks!

[fkiraly]

minor but consequential, breaking error above. Easy fix!