colorama/termcolor not returning coloured lines

[buran]

On windows you need to call init(). On other platforms it's simply ignored if present

from colorama import Fore, Back, Style, init
init()
print(Fore.RED + 'some red text')
print(Back.GREEN + 'and with a green background')
print(Style.DIM + 'and in dim text')
print(Style.RESET_ALL)
print('back to normal now')

run this from cmd, not in IDLE