caching sha2 password is not supported mysql

Question

i\'m trying to get my python program to insert data into MySQL and i followed a guide however i keep getting the error below.

\"Authentication plugin \'{0}\'

Answer 1

I managed to fix this. In the end I was using a version of python in Anaconda which just wouldn't install version 8.0.11 of the python connector, I managed to get 8.0.11 installed on my vanilla python 3.6.5 using windows PowerShell (in admin privileges) and using pip install MySQL-connector-python (I think I also had to update pip from 9 to 10.