[3.12] gh-113437: Update documentation about PyUnicode_AsWideChar() function (GH-113455) (GH-115407)

(cherry picked from commit 5719aa23ab7f1c7a5f03309ca4044078a98e7b59)

Co-authored-by: qqwqqw689 <114795525+qqwqqw689@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index 302316a..54a006c 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -861,7 +861,12 @@ wchar_t Support
    Copy the Unicode object contents into the :c:type:`wchar_t` buffer *wstr*.  At most
    *size* :c:type:`wchar_t` characters are copied (excluding a possibly trailing
    null termination character).  Return the number of :c:type:`wchar_t` characters
-   copied or ``-1`` in case of an error.  Note that the resulting :c:expr:`wchar_t*`
+   copied or ``-1`` in case of an error.
+
+   When *wstr* is ``NULL``, instead return the *size* that would be required
+   to store all of *unicode* including a terminating null.
+
+   Note that the resulting :c:expr:`wchar_t*`
    string may or may not be null-terminated.  It is the responsibility of the caller
    to make sure that the :c:expr:`wchar_t*` string is null-terminated in case this is
    required by the application. Also, note that the :c:expr:`wchar_t*` string