The sinc function is the function $$ f(x) = \frac{\sin x}{x}. $$ To plot it over $-20 \le x \le 20$:
>>> import pylab
>>> x = pylab.linspace(-20, 20, 1001)
>>> y = pylab.sin(x)/x
__main__:1: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in true_divide
>>> pylab.plot(x, y)
>>> pylab.show()
Note that even though Python warns of the division by zero at $x=0$, the function is plotted correctly: the singular point is set to the special value nan (standing for "not a number'') and is omitted from the plot.
>>> y[498:503]
array([ 0.99893367, 0.99973335, nan, 0.99973335, 0.99893367])
