Event and Listeners in Python

I work with C# on Unity3d (a platform to develop videogames) and here I learned to use Events, which you implement with the famous Observer Design Pattern (you can learn more about the pattern in this great video from Derek Banas: Observer Design Pattern). Events are a great way of telling multiple objects (listeners) that a certain event of their interest has occurred without having to search for them; its computationally efficient and really dynamic.

Being Python a dynamic language I thought there would be an Event System in the standard library, but there isn't. There are packages like PyDispatcher and PyNotify but not wanting install/test them, I decided to implement my own event manager system in a very Pythonic style.

So I created the EventManager class (code at the end), and the syntax is the following:

#Create an event with no listeners assigned to it
EventManager.addEvent( eventName = [] )

#Create an event with listeners assigned to it
EventManager.addEvent( eventName = [fun1, fun2,...] )

#Create any number event with listeners assigned to them
EventManager.addEvent( eventName1 = [e1fun1, e1fun2,...], eventName2 = [e2fun1, e2fun2,...], ... )

#Add or remove listener to an existing event
EventManager.eventName += extra_fun
EventManager.eventName -= removed_fun

#Delete an event
del EventManager.eventName

#Fire the event
EventManager.eventName()

Here is an Example:

def hello(name):
    print "Hello {}".format(name)

def greetings(name):
    print "Greetings {}".format(name)

EventManager.addEvent( salute = [greetings] )
EventManager.salute += hello

print "\nInitial salute"
EventManager.salute('Oscar')

print "\nNow remove greetings"
EventManager.salute -= greetings
EventManager.salute('Oscar')

Output:

Initial salute
Greetings Oscar
Hello Oscar 

Now remove greetings
Hello Oscar

EventManger Code:

class EventManager:

    class Event:
        def __init__(self,functions):
            if type(functions) is not list:
                raise ValueError("functions parameter has to be a list")
            self.functions = functions

        def __iadd__(self,func):
            self.functions.append(func)
            return self

        def __isub__(self,func):
            self.functions.remove(func)
            return self

        def __call__(self,*args,**kvargs):
            for func in self.functions : func(*args,**kvargs)

    @classmethod
    def addEvent(cls,**kvargs):
        """
        addEvent( event1 = [f1,f2,...], event2 = [g1,g2,...], ... )
        creates events using **kvargs to create any number of events. Each event recieves a list of functions,
        where every function in the list recieves the same parameters.

        Example:

        def hello(): print "Hello ",
        def world(): print "World"

        EventManager.addEvent( salute = [hello] )
        EventManager.salute += world

        EventManager.salute()

        Output:
        Hello World
        """
        for key in kvargs.keys():
            if type(kvargs[key]) is not list:
                raise ValueError("value has to be a list")
            else:
                kvargs[key] = cls.Event(kvargs[key])

        cls.__dict__.update(kvargs)