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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def get_events(self):
        '''
        iterate over the available events and return a list of events
        '''
        ret = []
        while True:
            event = self.event.get_event(wait=1, full=True)
            if event is None:
                return ret
            ret.append(event)