From a20381a8eee72165908f868cbb05ab5f3cbb4d1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: richardsheridan <richard.sheridan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:40:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Use public get_data_path for matplotlib hook (#5568)

Private _get_data_path was removed in matplotlib-3.4.0rc1.
This change simply removes the underscore to use the public
version. (#5567)
---
 PyInstaller/hooks/hook-matplotlib.py | 2 +-
 news/5568.bugfix.rst                 | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 news/5568.bugfix.rst

diff --git a/PyInstaller/hooks/hook-matplotlib.py b/PyInstaller/hooks/hook-matplotlib.py
index e13209bcc3..33a292031b 100644
--- a/PyInstaller/hooks/hook-matplotlib.py
+++ b/PyInstaller/hooks/hook-matplotlib.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import exec_statement
 
 mpl_data_dir = exec_statement(
-    "import matplotlib; print(matplotlib._get_data_path())")
+    "import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.get_data_path())")
 
 datas = [
     (mpl_data_dir, "matplotlib/mpl-data"),
diff --git a/news/5568.bugfix.rst b/news/5568.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e18a44e3fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/5568.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Remove dependence on a `private function
+<https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/e1352c71f07aee7eab004b73dd9bda2a260ab31b>`_
+removed in ``matplotlib`` 3.4.0rc1.