the socket module should include `getifaddrs` because it is necessary to translate the output of `if_nameindex` into addresses

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

socket.if_nameindex, socket.if_nametoindex and socket.if_indextoname all work in terms of interface names and indexes. But in order to do much of use with these values, you need to know what addresses they have, and as far as I can tell the socket module does not provide a means to do so.

This function exists in psutil, in netifaces, and there are various recipes lying around on Stack Overflow and elsewhere for accessing this function.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Es wird weder eine Quelldatei noch ein Test genannt. Untersuche zunächst socket.if_nameindex, socket.if_nametoindex und socket.if_indextoname und vergleiche anschließend die referenzierten Implementierungen von psutil und netifaces, um das Verhalten und die Plattformabdeckung von getifaddrs zu definieren; abgeschlossen ist die Arbeit, wenn das socket-Modul Schnittstellenadressen konsistent bereitstellt.