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Mastering Object-oriented Python

By : Steven F. Lott, Steven F. Lott
Book Image

Mastering Object-oriented Python

By: Steven F. Lott, Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Mastering Object-oriented Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Some Preliminaries
Index

Complexities and the callable API


Let's see how well this API holds up as our processing becomes more complex. The following is the double-up on each loss strategy (also known as the Martingale betting system):

class BettingMartingale( BettingStrategy ):
    def __init__( self ):
        self._win= 0
        self._loss= 0
        self.stage= 1
    @property
    def win(self): return self._win
    @win.setter
    def win(self, value):
        self._win = value
        self.stage= 1
    @property
    def loss(self): return self._loss
    @loss.setter
    def loss(self, value):
        self._loss = value
        self.stage *= 2
    def __call__( self ):
       return self.stage

Each loss doubles the betting by multiplying the stage by two. This goes on until we win and recoup our losses, reach the table limit, or go broke and can no longer place any bets. Casinos prevent this by imposing table limits.

Whenever we win, the betting is reset to the base bet. The stage is reset to have a value of...