> I'm trying to write a program they may involve needing to 
> divide 1 by another number. 

In that case you need it to use floating point numbers.
The easiest way is to use 1.0 but if it comes from a table 
or user entry you might have to explicitly convert:

one = 1
other = 42
result = float(one/other)

HTH,

Alan G.
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