Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories when using Pyinstaller despite PyQt5 not even being used

Question

A month ago I solved my applcation freezing issues for Python 2.7 as you can see here. I have since adapted my code to python 3.5 (using Anaconda) and it appears to be worki

Answer 1

None of the answers on this post worked for me, but I found this thread from a few months ago and it worked. Linking it here in case others run into a similar problem and come across this thread before the other one.

The solution is to add --exclude-module PyQt5 after the pyinstaller statement.