Pyflix, confused about super() call

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Anyone using Pyflix for the Netflix  prize.

How can it call super to itself in its init-method?




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#!/usr/bin/env python

'''Sample baseline averaging algorithms.'''

import numpy as N
from pyflix.algorithms import Algorithm


class MovieAverage(Algorithm):
    '''Baseline algorithm that computes the average of all the votes
for a movie
    and predicts that for every user.

    This algorithm returns an RMSE score of 1.0528 on the scrubbed
dataset.
    '''

    def __init__(self, training_set):
        self._movie_averages = {}
        super(MovieAverage,self).__init__(training_set)

    def __call__(self, movie_id, user_id):
        try: return self._movie_averages[movie_id]
        except KeyError:
            avg =
N.average(self._training_set.movie(movie_id).ratings())
            self._movie_averages[movie_id] = avg
            return avg


class UserAverage(Algorithm):
    '''Baseline algorithm that computes the average of all the votes
for a user
    and predicts that for every movie.

    This algorithm returns an RMSE score of 1.0688 on the scrubbed
dataset.
    '''

    def __init__(self, training_set):
        self._user_averages = {}
        super(UserAverage,self).__init__(training_set)

    def __call__(self, movie_id, user_id):
        try: return self._user_averages[user_id]
        except KeyError:
            avg =
N.average(self._training_set.user(user_id).ratings())
            self._user_averages[user_id] = avg
            return avg


class DoubleAverage(MovieAverage,UserAverage):
    '''Returns the average of L{MovieAverage} and L{UserAverage}.

    This algorithm returns an RMSE score of 1.0158 on the scrubbed
dataset.
    '''

    def __call__(self, movie_id, user_id):
        return (MovieAverage.__call__(self,movie_id,user_id) +
                UserAverage.__call__(self,movie_id,user_id)) / 2