[3.14] GH-138562: Remove ``sort()`` from the common sequence methods in the data...

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index d96341e75182c2a8406685e444716bb3bd8ba316..b1e4c2474b6bc9fa28338a1de1daf6210d7f4be1 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -3140,17 +3140,20 @@ objects.  The :mod:`collections.abc` module provides a
 :term:`abstract base class` to help create those methods from a base set of
 :meth:`~object.__getitem__`, :meth:`~object.__setitem__`,
 :meth:`~object.__delitem__`, and :meth:`!keys`.
-Mutable sequences should provide methods :meth:`~sequence.append`,
-:meth:`~sequence.count`, :meth:`~sequence.index`, :meth:`~sequence.extend`,
-:meth:`~sequence.insert`, :meth:`~sequence.pop`, :meth:`~sequence.remove`,
-:meth:`~sequence.reverse` and :meth:`!sort`,
+
+Mutable sequences should provide methods
+:meth:`~sequence.append`, :meth:`~sequence.clear`, :meth:`~sequence.count`,
+:meth:`~sequence.extend`, :meth:`~sequence.index`, :meth:`~sequence.insert`,
+:meth:`~sequence.pop`, :meth:`~sequence.remove`, and :meth:`~sequence.reverse`,
 like Python standard :class:`list` objects.
 Finally, sequence types should implement addition (meaning concatenation) and
 multiplication (meaning repetition) by defining the methods
 :meth:`~object.__add__`, :meth:`~object.__radd__`, :meth:`~object.__iadd__`,
 :meth:`~object.__mul__`, :meth:`~object.__rmul__` and :meth:`~object.__imul__`
 described below; they should not define other numerical
-operators.  It is recommended that both mappings and sequences implement the
+operators.
+
+It is recommended that both mappings and sequences implement the
 :meth:`~object.__contains__` method to allow efficient use of the ``in``
 operator; for
 mappings, ``in`` should search the mapping's keys; for sequences, it should