I can see why you feel it's cheating, but I think it's simply using the right tool for the job -- instead of worrying about which headers to include and what th

I can see why you feel it's cheating, but I think it's simply using the right tool for the job -- instead of worrying about which headers to include and what the exact C++ type specification for a map iterator is ... in Python, you can think about the actual problem at hand, rather than arcana.