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GH-138562: Remove sort() from the common sequence methods in the data model (#138563)
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Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

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@@ -3142,17 +3142,20 @@ objects. The :mod:`collections.abc` module provides a
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:term:`abstract base class` to help create those methods from a base set of
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:meth:`~object.__getitem__`, :meth:`~object.__setitem__`,
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:meth:`~object.__delitem__`, and :meth:`!keys`.
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Mutable sequences should provide methods :meth:`~sequence.append`,
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:meth:`~sequence.count`, :meth:`~sequence.index`, :meth:`~sequence.extend`,
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:meth:`~sequence.insert`, :meth:`~sequence.pop`, :meth:`~sequence.remove`,
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:meth:`~sequence.reverse` and :meth:`!sort`,
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Mutable sequences should provide methods
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:meth:`~sequence.append`, :meth:`~sequence.clear`, :meth:`~sequence.count`,
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:meth:`~sequence.extend`, :meth:`~sequence.index`, :meth:`~sequence.insert`,
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:meth:`~sequence.pop`, :meth:`~sequence.remove`, and :meth:`~sequence.reverse`,
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like Python standard :class:`list` objects.
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Finally, sequence types should implement addition (meaning concatenation) and
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multiplication (meaning repetition) by defining the methods
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:meth:`~object.__add__`, :meth:`~object.__radd__`, :meth:`~object.__iadd__`,
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:meth:`~object.__mul__`, :meth:`~object.__rmul__` and :meth:`~object.__imul__`
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described below; they should not define other numerical
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operators. It is recommended that both mappings and sequences implement the
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operators.
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It is recommended that both mappings and sequences implement the
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:meth:`~object.__contains__` method to allow efficient use of the ``in``
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operator; for
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mappings, ``in`` should search the mapping's keys; for sequences, it should

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