def compare(self, other, use_proxies=False, equivalents=None, **kw):
        to_compare = (other, )
        if equivalents and other in equivalents:
            to_compare = equivalents[other].union(to_compare)

        for oth in to_compare:
            if use_proxies and self.shares_lineage(oth):
                return True
            elif hash(oth) == hash(self):
                return True
        else:
            return False
Decodes a value using base64 and deserializes it from JSON.
dataset/ETHPy150Open goFrendiAsgard/kokoropy/kokoropy/packages/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py/ColumnElement.compare--crossover with--dataset/ETHPy150Open AppScale/appscale/AppServer/lib/webapp2-2.5.1/webapp2_extras/json.py/b64decode