Unregistering events?

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Just for educational purposes, I tried to set up my first C# script in pyRevit. I saw there was an example in the pyRevitDev Extension, so I enabled it. Then I started to receive popup dialogs every time I’d open a document.

Looking into the code, it appears this code in the startup.py is registering an event:

# test code for creating event handlers =======================================
# define event handler
def docopen_eventhandler(sender, args):
    forms.alert('Document Opened: {}'.format(args.PathName))

# add to DocumentOpening
# type is EventHandler[DocumentOpeningEventArgs] so create that correctly
HOST_APP.app.DocumentOpening += \
    framework.EventHandler[DB.Events.DocumentOpeningEventArgs](
        docopen_eventhandler
        )

Disabling the extension does not seem to unregister this event handler. Any tips on how to disable?
I looked into the Test IronPython Events pushbutton, which looks like the following:

# pylint: skip-file
from pyrevit import HOST_APP, framework
from pyrevit import UI, DB


dc = __revit__.Application.GetType().GetEvent("DocumentChanged")


def docchanged_eventhandler(sender, args):
    UI.TaskDialog.Show("ironpython", str(sender))
    UI.TaskDialog.Show("ironpython", str(args))
    UI.TaskDialog.Show("ironpython", "docchanged_eventhandler")


docchanged_handler = \
    framework.EventHandler[DB.Events.DocumentChangedEventArgs](
        docchanged_eventhandler
    )

HOST_APP.app.DocumentChanged += docchanged_handler
HOST_APP.app.DocumentChanged -= docchanged_handler

# dc.AddEventHandler(__revit__.Application, docchanged_handler)
dc.RemoveEventHandler(__revit__.Application, docchanged_handler)

However, the RemoveEventHandler option does not seem to work, and based on this post, I suspect it’s because it’s trying to remove the docchanged_handler from this script, which is technically a separate object from the first time it ran and added the event handler.

So now I’ve got literally every event popping up three dialog boxes…

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Well I feel like an idiot. That was easier to resolve than I thought - I just needed to disable the extension and then restart Revit, which cleared all the event handlers. Still not sure how you’d toggle them off at runtime though. Is there a way to see which event handlers are registered? I suppose they don’t have an ID you could easily reference, unless you had taken note of the GUID when you registered the handler in the first place; but that may have been in a different script.