Problem 55 Lychrel numbers

If we take 47, reverse and add, 47 + 74 = 121, which is palindromic.

Not all numbers produce palindromes so quickly. For example,

That is, 349 took three iterations to arrive at a palindrome.

Although no one has proved it yet, it is thought that some numbers, like 196, never produce a palindrome. A number that never forms a palindrome through the reverse and add process is called a Lychrel number. Due to the theoretical nature of these numbers, and for the purpose of this problem, we shall assume that a number is Lychrel until proven otherwise. In addition you are given that for every number below ten-thousand, it will either (i) become a palindrome in less than fifty iterations, or, (ii) no one, with all the computing power that exists, has managed so far to map it to a palindrome. In fact, 10677 is the first number to be shown to require over fifty iterations before producing a palindrome: 4668731596684224866951378664 (53 iterations, 28-digits).

Surprisingly, there are palindromic numbers that are themselves Lychrel numbers; the first example is 4994.

How many Lychrel numbers are there below ten-thousand?

NOTE: Wording was modified slightly on 24 April 2007 to emphasise the theoretical nature of Lychrel numbers.

def palindromes(number_str):
    result = True
    for i in range(0, len(number_str) / 2):
        if not number_str[i] == number_str[len(number_str) - 1 - i]:
            result = False
            break
    return result


def rev(number):
    result = 0
    while number >= 10:
        result += number % 10
        result *= 10
        number /= 10
    result += number
    return result


def process(number, level):
    result = number + rev(number)
    while not palindromes(str(result)):
        result += rev(result)
        level += 1
        if level > 49:
            return result, False
    return result, level

count = 0
for i in range(1, 10001):
    result, status = process(i, 1)
    # print i, process(i, 1)
    if status is False:
        count += 1

print count

while number >= 10:原来写成 while number > 10: 结果怎么都算不对

发现自己python debug还是很薄弱，还是面向print编程。。