I just tried to test the newly released version of PySide2 (5.11) on Windows 10, 64 bit version. But the "Hello World" example does not work. I am using Python 3.6 with PyCharm. The interpreter I use is from Anaconda. So I pip installed the PySide2 version and also tried to install via "conda install ..." the older version of PySide2. Both installations worked, but I get the same error message for both libraries.
The error message is popping up in a separate screen saying: "This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, windows."
So I definitely can see the plugin files in the correct folder. I tried reinstalling. Deleted everything and tried other IDEs. But nothing solved the problem.
Any help is appreciated.
If you run the app after having set QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
, you should get more info on what is the issue. In my case, I was getting:
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Users/xxxxx/AppData/Local/py3/platforms" ...
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "windows" in ""
Such a folder does not exist on my machine.
There are a few tickets somehow related to a similar issue (not sure it is the same problem):
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-559
- https://github.com/pyside/pyside2-setup/issues/57
- https://github.com/conda-forge/matplotlib-feedstock/issues/2
- https://github.com/conda-forge/qt-feedstock/issues/71
My current working solution is to remove PyQt
, qt
and sip
anaconda packages, then to manually delete a relic qt.conf
in the root folder of the environment. After that, the official PyPi PySide2
wheel works fine.
Try This :
import sys,os
import PySide2
dirname = os.path.dirname(PySide2.__file__)
plugin_path = os.path.join(dirname, 'plugins', 'platforms')
os.environ['QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH'] = plugin_path
# code .......
# .......