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

Here I added two 'break' to improve the speed of this program.

def is_palindrome(num):
    return str(num) == str(num)[::-1]
def max_palindrome(n):
    max_palindrome = 1
    for i in range(10**n-1,10**(n-1)-1,-1):
        for j in range(10**n-1,i-1,-1):
            if is_palindrome(i*j) and i*j > max_palindrome:
                max_palindrome = i * j
                break
            elif i*j < max_palindrome:
                break
    return max_palindrome
n=int(raw_input())
print max_palindrome(n)