As opposed to shipping LUA with C extensions? Also, there are things like shedskin: https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin - you don't even have to ship python. Or micropython: https://github.com/micropython/micropython with the code embedded. Then you can easily either shell out or include any C extensions you want.
netifaces: ...would require me to build a C extension which would mean going down the rabbit hole of building and bundling python and this library.