Why authenticate twice?

[teoArganaraz]

I was reading the code in detail and found that the validation of cookies in the linkedin class is also done in the client class in the authenticate method. There is a reaso or its only a duplication of code?

Linkedin class cookie validation

Client class cookie validation

[egor-ryashin]

It's not clear what's wrong in the question, for example if cookies exist it won't do do_authentication_request and return - meaning no double authentication here.

[egor-ryashin]

But I see that if cookie is specified in the init then metadata is not fetched.

def __init__(
        self,
        username: str,
        password: str,
        *,
        authenticate=True,
        refresh_cookies=False,
        debug=False,
        proxies={},
        cookies=None,
        cookies_dir: str = "",
    ):