SQLAlchemy printing raw SQL from create()

Question

I am giving Pylons a try with SQLAlchemy, and I love it, there is just one thing, is it possible to print out the raw SQL CREATE TABLE data generated from

Answer 1

I needed to get the raw table sql in order to setup tests for some existing models. Here's a successful unit test that I created for SQLAlchemy 0.7.4 based on Antoine's answer as proof of concept:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.schema import CreateTable
from model import Foo

sql_url = "sqlite:///:memory:"    
db_engine = create_engine(sql_url)

table_sql = CreateTable(Foo.table).compile(db_engine)
self.assertTrue("CREATE TABLE foos" in str(table_sql))