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 is the function I made in python to check if the product of 3 digit number is a palindrome

Function:

def is_palindrome(x):
    i = 0
    result = True
    while i < int(len(str(x))/2):
        j = i+1
        if str(x)[i] == str(x)[-(j)]:
            result = True
        else:
            result = False
            break
        i = i + 1
    return result

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Main:

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max_pal = 0
for i in range (100,999):
    for j in range (100,999):
        x = i * j
        if (is_palindrome(x)):
            if x > max_pal:
                max_pal = x

print(max_pal)