def _validate_operand(self, other):
        if isinstance(other, str):
            return Version(other)
        elif isinstance(other, Version):
            return other
        raise TypeError(f"{other} (type {type(other)}) cannot be compared to version.")

    def __eq__(self, other):
        try:
            other = self._validate_operand(other)
        except (TypeError, ValueError):
            return False
        else:
            return self.tuple == other.tuple

    def __lt__(self, other):
        other = self._validate_operand(other)
        return self.tuple < other.tuple

    def __hash__(self):
        return hash(_version_tuple_to_str(self.tuple))

    @classmethod
    def from_dict(cls, dic):
        field_names = {f.name for f in dataclasses.fields(cls)}
        return cls(**{k: v for k, v in dic.items() if k in field_names})

    def _to_yaml_string(self) -> str:
        return self.version_str