python - Error #15: Initializing libiomp5.dylib, but found libiomp5.dylib already initialized

Question

Getting the error message when using matplotlib:

Error #15: Initializing libiomp5.dylib, but found libiomp5.dylib already initialized OMP: Hint: This means that multiple copies of the OpenMP runtime have been linked into the program. That is dangerous, since it can degrade performance or cause incorrect results. The best thing to do is to ensure that only a single OpenMP runtime is linked into the process, e.g. by avoiding static linking of the OpenMP runtime in any library. As an unsafe, unsupported, undocumented workaround you can set the environment variable KMP_DUPLICATE_LIB_OK=TRUE to allow the program to continue to execute, but that may cause crashes or silently produce incorrect results. For more information, please see http://www.intel.com/software/products/support/.

Answer 1

Do the following to solve the issue:

import os

os.environ['KMP_DUPLICATE_LIB_OK']='True'

Answer found at: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/1715

Be aware of potential side-effects:

but that may cause crashes or silently produce incorrect results.