Guido grants a Christmas wish:

sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.

Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex

@@ -886,6 +886,15 @@ class C(object):
   \samp{a[start:stop, i]}.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{sorted(\var{iterable}\optional{, \var{cmp}=None
+                                      \optional{, \var{key}=None
+                                      \optional{, \var{reverse}=False}}})}
+  Return a new sorted list from the items in \var{iterable}.
+  The optional arguments \var{cmp}, \var{key}, and \var{reverse}
+  have the same meaning as those for the \method{list.sort()} method.
+  \versionadded{2.4}    
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \begin{funcdesc}{staticmethod}{function}
   Return a static method for \var{function}.