[3.11] gh-98930: improve the docstring of signal.strsignal (GH-99290) (#99449)

Improves the docstring on signal.strsignal to make it explain when it returns a message, None, or when it raises ValueError.

Closes GH-98930

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>.
(cherry picked from commit 88385b8564)

Co-authored-by: ram vikram singh <ramvikrams243@gmail.com>
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@ -627,13 +627,14 @@ signal.strsignal
Return the system description of the given signal.
The return values can be such as "Interrupt", "Segmentation fault", etc.
Returns None if the signal is not recognized.
Returns the description of signal *signalnum*, such as "Interrupt"
for :const:`SIGINT`. Returns :const:`None` if *signalnum* has no
description. Raises :exc:`ValueError` if *signalnum* is invalid.
[clinic start generated code]*/
static PyObject *
signal_strsignal_impl(PyObject *module, int signalnum)
/*[clinic end generated code: output=44e12e1e3b666261 input=b77914b03f856c74]*/
/*[clinic end generated code: output=44e12e1e3b666261 input=238b335847778bc0]*/
{
const char *res;