Fix for colored text in terminals on Windows.

docs/guide_intermediate.rst

@@ -77,3 +77,15 @@ To setup the library to use your GPU or CPU explicitly in 32-bit or 64-bit mode,
     from sknn.platform import cpu64
 
 WARNING: This will only work if your program has not yet imported the ``theano`` module, due to the way that library is designed.  If ``THEANO_FLAGS`` are set on the command-line, they are not overwridden.
+
+
+Backend Configuration
+---------------------
+
+As of version 0.3, ``scikit-neuralnetwork`` supports multiple neural network implementations called backends, each wrapped behind an identical standardized interface.  To configure a backend, you can do so by importing the corresponding module:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    from sknn.backend import pylearn2
+
+As long as you call this before creating a neural network, this will register the PyLearn2 implementation as the one that's used.  Supported backends are currently ``pylearn2`` (default) and ``deepy`` (incomplete).

setup.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
     'scikit-learn',
     'theano',
     'pyyaml',
+    'colorama' if sys.platform == 'win32' else '',
     # 'pylearn2',
 ]
 

sknn/__init__.py

@@ -53,3 +53,9 @@ def __getattr__(self, name):
 
 
 sys.modules['sknn.platform'] = TheanoConfigurator()
+
+
+try:
+    import colorama; colorama.init(); del colorama
+except ImportError:
+    pass