highest palindrome with 3 digit numbers in python

Question

In problem 4 from http://projecteuler.net/ it says:

A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-d

Answer 1

580085 = 995 X 583, where 906609 = 993 X 913. Found it only by applying brute-forcing from top to bottom!