Ipython notebook: show for-loop images "realtime", before next step [duplicate]

Question

Running following code in an ipython/jupyter notebook:

for i in range(4):

    # any figure
    fig = plt.figure()
    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
    ax.plot(range(i), range(i))
    fig.show()

    # do something that takes a long time:
    a = fib(500000)     

results in all the figures being visible at the same time (after the 4th loop).

How can I change my setup so that the figures become visible as soon as they have been calculated (before the next step in the for loop)?

N.B. I'm using %matplotlib inline

Answer 1

First, import display:

from IPython import display

and replace fig.show() by display.display(fig)