Script to find how many palindromic numbers there are in a set representable by a 16 bit unsigned integer

palidromicNumbers.py

def main():
  # length of unsigned 16 bit int
  length = 65535
  # keep count of how many palindromic numbers there are
  count = 0 
  # loop through entire range
  for i in range(0,length):
    #cast i to a string and compare reverse
    if(str(i) == reverseString(str(i))):
      count += 1
  # for a 16 bit unsigned int, the answer is 754
  print count

def reverseString(string):
  return string[::-1]


if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()