Why doesn't python's list append() method return the list itself?

[Nathan Rice]

Do list(reversed(list(reversed([1, 2, 3, 4])) + [[]]))

Though TBH sometimes get annoyed at this behavior myself.  There are a lot
of people who are very vocal in support of returning none, and it makes
sense in some ways.  Since reversed returns an iterator though, it makes
this code horrible and unreadable.
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