About a week back, I was reinstalling Keras, TensorFlow and all the other libraries after a reformat of my PC. When I started verifying the library installations, I came across a strange error. When I tried to run a simple deep learning model, Python runtime crashed. As soon as I execute the script I was getting the "python.exe has stopped working" error message (I'm using Windows 10).
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| Matplotlib is an important part of my deep learning workflows |
A little bit of debugging narrowed down the error to the following line in my script.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
(I was using matplotlib to graph the training history of the model. See "How to Graph Model Training History in Keras")
The error did not occur if I simply import matplotlib. It only occurred when specifically importing the pyplot module.
import matplotlib # no errors import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # crash!!!
This is a known issue due to some library conflicts in the installation, which should hopefully be fixed in a future release. Until then, if you're getting this error, you can fix it by following the steps below.