PyBrain for Students
If you're looking for a machine learning library to use for your projects, you probably won't need to look further!
Pybrain allows you to build complex and custom network architectures, and use state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and apply them directly to your problem - you don't need to understand the algorithms to use them, and all components have default parameter settings that should be general-purpose and robust.
Just take the latest stable version from the download page, skim over a couple of tutorials and examples and get started immediately. The community of PyBrain developers is an active one, and will probably be able to help you overcome most problems.