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generate_user_files warns about unknown arguments with pwb
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When the user-config.py doesn't exist, pwb.py starts generate_user_files.py but passes all arguments except the first one. So if someone executes python pwb.py login pwb.py will pass login as an argument and generate_user_files.py complains accordingly:

python pwb.py login
NOTE: 'user-config.py' was not found! Please follow the prompts to create it:
WARNING: Running on Windows and transliteration_target is not set. Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot/Windows
Unknown arguments: login

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Change 220108 had a related patch set uploaded (by John Vandenberg):
pwb fixups for generate_*

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/220108

Change 220108 merged by jenkins-bot:
pwb fixups for generate_*

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/220108

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Change 223874 had a related patch set uploaded (by Merlijn van Deen):
pwb fixups for generate_*

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/223874

Change 223874 merged by jenkins-bot:
pwb fixups for generate_*

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/223874