Matplotlib Crashing tkinter Application

Question

I am building an application that embeds a matplotlib figure into the GUI. The problem is that my app is crashing as soon as I add anything from matplotlib into my code (ex

Answer 1

@DonCristobal's answer helped me and therefore I tried to upvote or add a comment to it but stackoverflow prevents me from doing any of that citing certain points I must reach before I can comment or upvote. The solution suggested by @DonCristobal worked for my configuration given below:

Mac catalina, python 3.6 & matplotlib 3.0.3

Here is what i did -

Modified

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

to

import matplotlib

matplotlib.use("TkAgg")

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt