[peterderivaz]

I've found using nolearn and lasagne on top of Theano made Theano much easier to use while still being in Python with access to familiar graphics routines.

lasagne gives you ways of constructing neural network layers (implemented as Theano functions).

nolearn sits on top of lasagne and gives a Scikit learn style interface that makes it trivial to set up a standard deep network to predict values from given input data.

Using nolearn was a very similar experience for me to using the Torch7 framework.