转载：https://www.jianshu.com/p/7b0dd384f512
环境
mysql： 8.0.20 MySQL Community Server - GPL
Python： 3.9.2
错误描述
mysql.connector.errors.NotSupportedError) Authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' is not supported
解决方案：
(venv) F:pythonSpace>pip install MySQL-connector-python
Collecting MySQL-connector-python
Downloading mysql_connector_python-8.0.23-py2.py3-none-any.whl (379 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 379 kB 437 kB/s
Collecting protobuf>=3.0.0
Downloading protobuf-3.15.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (173 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 173 kB 819 kB/s
Collecting six>=1.9
Downloading six-1.15.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (10 kB)
Installing collected packages: six, protobuf, MySQL-connector-python
Successfully installed MySQL-connector-python-8.0.23 protobuf-3.15.8 six-1.15.0
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