DOC: Sort the pandas API reference navbar in alphabetical order

[jeropaul]

Pandas version checks

• I have checked that the issue still exists on the latest versions of the docs on main here

Location of the documentation

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.loc.html

Documentation problem

The navigation bar in the API reference documentation is not sorted in alphabetical order!

current navigation example order copied directly from the page.

Dataframe
pandas.DataFrame
pandas.DataFrame.index
pandas.DataFrame.columns
pandas.DataFrame.dtypes
pandas.DataFrame.info
pandas.DataFrame.select_dtypes
pandas.DataFrame.values
pandas.DataFrame.axes
pandas.DataFrame.ndim
pandas.DataFrame.size
pandas.DataFrame.shape
pandas.DataFrame.memory_usage
pandas.DataFrame.empty

Why is this a problem?

As a developer starting to work with Python and Pandas
When reviewing the Pandas API reference docs
Then it is really easy to miss behaviour that I would want to use, because of how it is sorted

Suggested fix for documentation

Sort the documentation alphabetically.

[SiddheshBangar]

@jeropaul Thanks for sharing this issue, I had a look into this, and it is actually a long list to be fixed. If it is required to be fixed let me know, I will open a PR

[rhshadrach]

The order is in the sections that appear on this page - https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/frame.html. Are we able to order that page independently of the sidebar? If not, I'd be -1 on having a lexicographical ordering across all DataFrame methods.

[jeropaul]

I also note that pandas.DataFrame.tail is listed in the navigation bar twice for the DataFrame... I suspect that this happens because it appears in both 'Reindexing / selection / label manipulation' and 'Indexing, iteration'. Not a significant issue but it is kinda weird.

Being honest I did not even notice the right hand side menu bar until @rhshadrach pointed it out...

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