How to fix “could not find or load the Qt platform plugin windows” while using Matplotlib in PyCharm

Question

I am getting the error \"could not find or load the Qt platform plugin windows\" while using matplotlib in PyCharm.

How can I solve this?

Answer 1

If you want to visualize your matplotlibs in an alternative way, use a different backend that generates the graphs, charts etc.

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('TKAgg')

This worked for me.