matplotlib crashing Python

Question

I\'m new to Python and matplotlib. A simple script I wrote is crashing and I was able to reproduce the crash with the following code:

import matplotlib.pyplo         


        

Answer 1

I was having this issue, I thought it was some line in my code causing the bug, but in fact the very act of importing matplotlib.pyplot was killing my program. I solved it by first running it in verbose mode:

python -v [programname].py

This shows the last action the importer does before crashing. For me, the last line of this was:

import 'PyQt5' # <_frozen_importlib_external.SourceFileLoader object at 0x000001F8EC9C0908>

This suggested to me that the dependent library PyQt5 was causing issues, so I ran pip install PyQt5, and magically everything started working.