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def login(request):
  if request.method == "POST":
    form = AuthenticationForm(data=request.POST)
    if form.is_valid():
      user=form.get_user()
      login(request,user)
      if 'next' in request.POST:
        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(request.POST.get('next')))
      else:
        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('website:books'))
    else:
      return render(request,'website/login.html')
  else:
    form=AuthenticationForm()
  return render(request,'website/login.html',{'form':form})
The error i am getting is:
File "D:\playground\blog\website\views.py", line 16, in login
login(request,user)
TypeError: login() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given
[10/Mar/2020 14:34:57] "POST /website/login/ HTTP/1.1" 500 74342
What am i missing?
The problem is that your custom function is called "login" and then you are trying to call the django function from django.contrib.auth which is also called login.
Look on that line and you call login(request,user)
So the fix is one of these
Rename your view to something other than login
In the import use "as" to alias the existing function to something else.  E.G. from django.contrib.auth import login as django_login then change login(request,user) for django_login(request,user)
        
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