This sqlalchemy test works now

src/runtime/types.cpp

@@ -3552,6 +3552,7 @@ void setupRuntime() {
     // XXX silly that we have to set this again
     new (&object_cls->attrs) HCAttrs(HiddenClass::makeSingleton());
     new (&type_cls->attrs) HCAttrs(HiddenClass::makeSingleton());
+    object_cls->instances_are_nonzero = true;
     object_cls->tp_getattro = PyObject_GenericGetAttr;
     object_cls->tp_setattro = PyObject_GenericSetAttr;
     object_cls->tp_init = object_init;

test/integration/sqlalchemy_smalltest.py

@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ MODULES_TO_TEST = [
     'test.base.test_events',
     'test.base.test_except',
     'test.base.test_inspect',
+    'test.base.test_utils',
     'test.dialect.test_mxodbc',
     'test.dialect.test_pyodbc',
     'test.dialect.test_sybase',
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ for fn in test_files:
         m = __import__(mname, fromlist=["__all__"])
         for clsname in dir(m):
             cls = getattr(m, clsname)
-            if not clsname.endswith("Test") or not isinstance(cls, type):
+            if clsname.startswith('_') or not clsname.endswith("Test") or not isinstance(cls, type):
                 continue
             print "Running", cls