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im trying to login using django.contrib.auth it giving me error

whenever im trying to login it gives me error below

TypeError at /login/user
login() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given
this is my login template and url work perfectly from login/user
<div class="container border border-2 border-info rounded-2 p-3" style="width: 400px;margin-top: 100px; margin-bottom: 200px;">
<form action="user" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
    <h3 class="p-3">
        <small class="text-muted">Login To Your Account</small>
    <div class="mb-3 form-floating">
      <input type="text" class="form-control" id="InputUsername" aria-describedby="emailHelp" name="username" placeholder="Enter Username">
      <div id="emailHelp" class="form-text">We'll never share your email with anyone else.</div>
      <label for="InputUsername" >Username</label>
    <div class="mb-3 form-floating">
      <input type="password" class="form-control" id="InputPassword" name="password" placeholder="Enter Password">
      <label for="InputPassword" class="form-label">Password</label>
    <div class="mb-3 form-check">
      <input type="checkbox" class="form-check-input" id="exampleCheck1">
      <label class="form-check-label" for="exampleCheck1">Remember me</label>
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Login</button><a href="/register" class="streched-link p-3">Create Account</a>
  </form>
urls.py look like this
from store.settings import MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL
from . import views
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [
    path('',views.home,name="home"),
    path('login/',views.login,name="login"),
    path('register/',views.register,name="register"),
    path('register/user',views.registeruser,name="registeruser"),
    path('login/user',views.handlelogin,name="loginuser"),
    path('/user/logout',views.handlelogout,name="logout")
]+  static(settings.MEDIA_URL,document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
views.py my handle login function
def handlelogin(request):
    username = request.POST['username']
    password = request.POST['password']
    user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)
    if user is not None:
        login(request, user)
        # Redirect to a success page.
        return redirect('')
    else:
        # Return an 'invalid login' error message
        return redirect('login')
def handlelogout(request):
    logout(request)
    return redirect(' ')
i dont get what im doing wrong
can someone tell me please
                i imported authenticate , login and logout as well but login() function giving me error i mentioned above , handle login is copy pasted from django documentation still i cant resolve it, i watch videos and i did the everything same
– Farman
                Oct 30, 2021 at 12:57
Based on your urls.py, you defined a login function, this thus means that if you call login(request, user), it will call the view function, not the login function from the django.contrib.auth module.
You can import it with a different name, for example:
from django.contrib.auth import login as authlogin
# &vellip;
def login(request):
    # &vellip;
def handlelogin(request):
    username = request.POST['username']
    password = request.POST['password']
    user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)
    if user is not None:
        authlogin(request, user)
        # Redirect to a success page.
        return redirect('')
    else:
        # Return an 'invalid login' error message
        return redirect('login')
        
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