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IMPR: Add additional informations to Site.login error message

Wasn't able to reproduce that issue but suggest to delete the cookie
file in such case. Adding the proposal to the error message.

Bug: T395670
Change-Id: I5534f4ef64696debba1856a382a27f10519ea75c
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M pywikibot/site/_apisite.py
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pywikibot/site/_apisite.py b/pywikibot/site/_apisite.py
index 9480955..4dbc723 100644
--- a/pywikibot/site/_apisite.py
+++ b/pywikibot/site/_apisite.py
@@ -432,10 +432,15 @@
                     self._loginstatus = login.LoginStatus.AS_USER
                     return
 
-                pywikibot.error(
+                pywikibot.error(fill(
                     f"{self.userinfo['name']} != {self.username()} after "
                     f'{type(self).__name__}.login() and successful '
-                    f'{type(login_manager).__name__}.login()')
+                    f'{type(login_manager).__name__}.login(). You should'
+                    ' probably delete the cookie file "pywikibot-'
+                    f'{self.username()}.lwp" and re-login. You may use the'
+                    ' login script.',
+                    77
+                ))
 
         self._loginstatus = login.LoginStatus.NOT_LOGGED_IN  # failure
 

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