Finds palindrome numbers within a list of ranges. Input file here: https://gist.github.com/hminaya/5435673

capicua2.py

#!/usr/bin/env pypy

def main():
    palindromes = []
    ranges = [[int(i) for i in line.split()] for line in open('seed.txt')]
    ranges_flat = [i for r in ranges for i in r]
    lo, hi = min(ranges_flat), max(ranges_flat)
    while hi >= lo:
        n = str(lo)
        if n == n[::-1]:
            palindromes.append(lo)
        lo += 1

    total = 0
    for lo, hi in ranges:
        for p in palindromes:
            if lo <= p <= hi:
                total += 1
            else:
                continue
    print 'TOTAL: %d' % total

if  __name__ =='__main__':
    main()

session.sh

$ pypy --version
Python 2.7.3 (17df5567c9a0, Apr 15 2013, 03:35:20)
[PyPy 2.0.0-beta2 with GCC 4.8.0]
$ time pypy capicua2.py
TOTAL: 106814
pypy capicua2.py  0.37s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.388 total

Great!