Python: "certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain"

I am trying to connect to Box programmatically from Python. I created a new Box Developer custom app using OAuth 2.0 authentication, and  when I submit the below code I am getting the error that you see below. I am not too well-versed in certificates, so could someone help me out?

Note: I already searched the developer forum and read similar posts, such as Certificate Verify Failed – Box Support and SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed – Box Support, however none that I found actually describes how to solve the problem.

Python 3.10.8 (tags/v3.10.8:aaaf517, Oct 11 2022, 16:50:30) [MSC v.1933 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

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>>> from boxsdk import OAuth2, Client

>>> TOKEN='*****************'

>>> auth=OAuth2(None,None,access_token=TOKEN)

>>> box = Client(auth)

>> me = box.user().get()
←[31mRequest "GET https://api.box.com/2.0/users/me" failed with SSLError exception: SSLError(MaxRetryError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.box.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /2.0/users/me (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:997)')))"))←[0m