(2059,“Authentication Plugin 'caching_sha2_password'”) when running server connected with MYSQL database on Django

Question

I want to configure my django project in order to connect it with database in MYSQL I created with workbench 8.0,
and then I want to r

Answer 1

PyMySQL added support for caching_sha2_password in 0.9.0, though there was a Py2 error fixed in 0.9.1.

Also noted in the install instructions, for caching_sha2_password there is the additional requirement:

python3 -m pip install PyMySQL[rsa]