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

SOLUTION FOR WINDOWS USERS

Create new environment variable with:

name: QT_PLUGIN_PATH path: C:\yourpythonpath\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5\Qt\plugins

after that exe file will work