无法从 Python 3.8 连接到 MySQL 8

Question

I am using the following guidelines to connect to MySql8 from my Python code

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-example-connecting.html

When I enter my connection details, I get the following error:

mysql.connector.errors.NotSupportedError: Authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' is not supported

I do not know what the issue could be? The link clearly does not talk about any security or the "Authentication plugin".

Would appreciate any help possible

Many Thanks

Answer 1

Sorted!! I just had to provide the mysql driver to Python. Adding to PyCharm or the any IDE is not a solution per se.

This is what I had to do:

https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_mysql_getstarted.asp

Answer 2

For me, the problem was that I had installed the wrong pip package. I had installed mysql-connector when in reality I needed mysql-connector-python .

pip3 uninstall mysql-connector
pip3 install mysql-connector-python

After I had the correct package, I did not get the error.