Thank you for the reply, I was thinking to use something similar.

On Apr 28, 11:25 pm, "Michael Bayer" <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
> dimazest wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I faced a problem comparing Selects. It seems that Select.compare()
> > works incorrectly.
>
> > Here is the code that shows the problem:
>
> >>>> from sqlalchemy import MetaData
> >>>> from sqlalchemy import Table, Column
> >>>> from sqlalchemy import Integer, String
> >>>> from sqlalchemy import select
> >>>> metadata = MetaData()
> >>>> table1 = Table('table1', metadata,
> > ... Column('col1', Integer, primary_key=True),
> > ... )
> >>>> s1 = select([table1])
> >>>> s2 = select([table1])
> >>>> assert s1.compare(s2)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
> > AssertionError
>
> > Do I expect correctly that s1.compare(s2) should return True? If not,
> > how can I compare to Selects?
>
> compare() is documented as producing an identity compare by default, i.e.
> s1.compare(s1) would be True.   "compare()" is currently only used by the
> ORM for comparing the structure of column expressions and is not generally
> useful on a FromClause at this time.
>
> for a simple comparison of any two elements, just do:
>
> def compare(x, y):
>    x = x.compile()
>    y = y.compile()
>    return unicode(x) == unicode(y) and x.params == y.params
>
>
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