This has two problems:
* it's not thread-safe, which will become problematic if we run tests with thread-parallelism.
* it's not very maintainable.
Instead, add a new util.test_event(...) function that can be called at points of interest in the program. test_utils registers a callback that is invoked when an event is received. This avoids the need to make thread-unsafe global monkey patches.
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