From bd11913a4ae377ebc399fca6a1af4d40e2ca82bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Bruhin <git@the-compiler.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:31:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add colorama to scripts.utils

---
 scripts/utils.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/utils.py b/scripts/utils.py
index 0c66814a1..daa3a7dcc 100644
--- a/scripts/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/utils.py
@@ -19,10 +19,22 @@
 
 """Utility functions for scripts."""
 
+import os
 
 use_color = True
 
 
+# Import side-effects are an evil thing, but here it's okay so scripts using
+# colors work on Windows as well.
+try:
+    import colorama
+except ImportError:
+    if os.name == 'nt':
+        use_color = False
+else:
+    colorama.init()
+
+
 fg_colors = {
     'black': 30,
     'red': 31,