Any Pythoners out there have a label expression that "strips" the preceding 0 from the section number field ([FRSTDIVLAB]) in the cadastral/PLSS section layer (i.e., PLSSFirstDivision).   I would like my labels to read "1" rather than "01" as defined in the attribute table. 

It appears that a script could be implemented in the label expression to do this.  Perhaps there is an easier way?  I would like to avoid creating a new numeric field in the attribute table just to make the section number label correctly.   Thanks!