ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL'

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Issue

Trying to use matplotlib 3.7.1 with python 3.9.16:

>>>>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Users\my_user_name\Anaconda3\envs\my_env_name\lib\site-packages\matplotlib__init__.py", line 131, in from . import _api, _version, cbook, _docstring, rcsetup File "C:\Users\my_user_name\Anaconda3\envs\my_env_name\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\rcsetup.py", line 27, in from matplotlib.colors import Colormap, is_color_like File "C:\Users\my_user_name\Anaconda3\envs\my_env_name\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\colors.py", line 51, in from PIL import Image File "C:\Users\my_user_name\Anaconda3\envs\my_env_name\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 103, in from . import _imaging as core ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' (C:\Users\my_user_name\Anaconda3\envs\my_envname\lib\site-packages\PIL__init_.py)

Installed packages

# packages in environment at "rra88's environment":
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
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anyio                     3.7.0              pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
anyqt                     0.2.0              pyh6c4a22f_0    conda-forge
argon2-cffi               21.3.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
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