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

Each time it doesnot have to start from 999 as it is already found earlier.Below is a simple method using string function to find largest palindrome using three digit number

def palindrome(y):
    z=str(y)
    w=z[::-1]
    if (w==z):
        return 0
    elif (w!=z):
        return 1        
h=[]
a=999
for i in range (999,0,-1):
    for j in range (a,0,-1):
    l=palindrome(i*j)
    if (l==0):
        h=h+[i*j]               
    a-=1
print h
max=h[0]

for i in range(0,len(h)):
    if (h[i] > max):
    max= h[i]
print "largest palindrome using multiple of three digit number=%d"%max