bpo-15243: Document __prepare__ as classmethod (GH-17124)

(cherry picked from commit 7de6174)

Co-authored-by: alclarks <[email protected]>

Author: 2 people

Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

@@ -1931,7 +1931,8 @@ Preparing the class namespace
 Once the appropriate metaclass has been identified, then the class namespace
 is prepared. If the metaclass has a ``__prepare__`` attribute, it is called
 as ``namespace = metaclass.__prepare__(name, bases, **kwds)`` (where the
-additional keyword arguments, if any, come from the class definition).
+additional keyword arguments, if any, come from the class definition). The
+``__prepare__`` method should be implemented as a :func:`classmethod`.
 
 If the metaclass has no ``__prepare__`` attribute, then the class namespace
 is initialised as an empty ordered mapping.