Django cannot import login from django.contrib.auth.views

Question

I try to build a login function for my page. To edit the urls.py as followed, it keeps printing this:

cannot import name \'login\' from \'django.contrib.

Answer 1

Can try this to create a login form

# views page
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.contrib.auth import login
from django.contrib import messages

def loginPage(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        username = request.POST.get("username")
        password = request.POST.get("password")
        user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)
        if user is not None:
            login(request, user)
            return redirect('home')
        else:
            messages.info(request, 'Username or Password is incorrect')
    context = {}
    return render(request, 'accounts/login.html', context)

#urls
urlpatterns = [
path('login/', views.loginPage, name='login'),,
]