Merge pull request #173 from rayosborn/fix-link-equality

Add function to check link equality

src/nexusformat/nexus/tree.py

@@ -5232,6 +5232,14 @@ def __setitem__(self, idx, value):
         else:
             self.nxlink.__setitem__(idx, value)
 
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        """Return True if two linked objects share the same target."""
+        if isinstance(other, NXlink):
+            return ((self._target == other._target) and
+                    (self._filename == other._filename))
+        else:
+            return False
+
     def __deepcopy__(self, memo={}):
         """Return a deep copy of the link containing the target information."""
         obj = self