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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def select_address_family(host, port):
 """Return ``AF_INET4``, ``AF_INET6``, or ``AF_UNIX`` depending on the host and port."""

    # disabled due to problems with current ipv6 implementations
    # and various operating systems.  Probably this code also is
    # not supposed to work, but I can't come up with any other
    # ways to implement this.
    # try:
    #     info = socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, socket.AF_UNSPEC,
    #                               socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0,
    #                               socket.AI_PASSIVE)
    #     if info:
    #         return info[0][0]
    # except socket.gaierror:
    #     pass
    if host.startswith("unix://"):
        return socket.AF_UNIX
    elif ":" in host and hasattr(socket, "AF_INET6"):
        return socket.AF_INET6
    return socket.AF_INET