login(request, user) function not working in django.contrib.auth

Question

I am currently building a web app using Django that requires users to login, and I have this function in views.py

 def post(self, request, format=None):
        login = request.data
        user = authenticate(
                username=login['username'], password=login['password'])

        if user is not None:
            login(request, user)
            return Response({'message': 'Login successful', 'status': 1})
        else:
            return Response({'message': 'Login unsuccessful', 'status': 0})

But the login function keeps triggering an error

File ".../views.py", line 58, in post
    login(request, user)
TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable

I don't know why the user is identified as 'dict' object. Can please anyone help me?

Answer 1

login = request.data

changing the variable name will work.