> 2: As I was instantiating the LoginManager directly, I noticed that
> they keyword argument had changed from username to user. Not mentioned
> in the conversion docs, although it's an easy fix.
Fixed in r8156
>
> 3: Login completely failed (but I figured out why), but also noticed
> that it failed with a NameError, there's a reference to _logger in
> login.py. I think it's line 153.
Also fixed in r8156
> 4: Once I figured out that the api is the right LoginManager now
> (because login.py no longer has a getCookie() method), things were
> working again. Or maybe I'm not supposed to login that way anyway? ;)
There's really never any need to access the LoginManager in bot code.
Simply instantiating a Site object logs you in automatically. Note that you
can use the -user:XXX command line option to change the default account, or
you can do it in code by instantiating pywikibot.Site(user="XXX").
Russ