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

On Windows:

1. Copy the folder platforms:

   C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\pyinstaller\bincache00_py35_64bit\pyqt5\qt\plugins\platforms 
   

2. Paste the folder platform into the folder location of the file .exe:

   Example:

   c:\MyFolder\yourFile.exe
   c:\MyFolder\platforms