[Python] Casting int to valid enum member causes ValueError in Python

**Hi.

Coming from a C# background and relatively new to python, I'm struggling with something that should be pretty straightforward (I think).

I have an enum declared as follows:

from enum import Enum

class MessageRole(Enum):
SYSTEM = 1,
ASSISTANT = 2,
USER = 3,
FUNCTION = 4,
TOOL = 5


I'm trying to cast an integer to a specific enum value using the following code:

role: MessageRole = MessageRole(1)


...which produces the following error:

An error occurred: 1 is not a valid MessageRole


I'm running Python 3.12.10 in VS Code.

What am I doing wrong?

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