allow multiple calls to Message.close()

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 - add int64 data type to info parser
+- allow multiple calls to Message.close()
  
 ## [0.5.1] - 2023-11-05
 

app/src/messages.py

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class Message(metaclass=IterRegistry):
         # we have refernces to methods of this class in self.switch
         # so we have to erase self.switch, otherwise this instance can't be
         # deallocated by the garbage collector ==> we get a memory leak
-        del self.switch
+        self.switch.clear()
 
     def inc_counter(self, counter: str) -> None:
         self.db.inc_counter(counter)