Project Euler # 37 Truncatable primes in Python

The number 3797 has an interesting property. Being prime itself, it is possible to continuously remove digits from left to right, and remain prime at each stage: 3797, 797, 97, and 7. Similarly we can work from right to left: 3797, 379, 37, and 3.

Find the sum of the only eleven primes that are both truncatable from left to right and right to left.

NOTE: 2, 3, 5, and 7 are not considered to be truncatable primes.

Here's my implementation in Python, it's very slow(takes like 10 secs to show results. How to make it faster, more efficient?

def is_prime(number):
"""returns True for a prime number, False otherwise."""
if number == 1:
return False
factor = 2
while factor * factor <= number:
if number % factor == 0:
return False
factor += 1
return True

def get_truncatable(n):
"""returns truncatable numbers within range n."""
for number in range(9, n, 2):
if is_prime(number):
check = 0
for index in range(-1, -len(str(number)), -1):
less_right = str(number)[:index]
if not is_prime(int(less_right)):
check += 1
if check == 0:
for index in range(1, len(str(number))):
less_left = str(number)[index:]
if not is_prime(int(less_left)):
check += 1
if check == 0:
yield number

if __name__ == '__main__':
print(sum(list(get_truncatable(1000000))))