[Python] How to make robot framework SSHLibrary not call logger.log_background_messages() on...

I am in my keyword running some parallel tasks using concurrent.futures and using robotbackgroundlogger to log the messages. After all threads are finished I run logger.log_background_messages() in the main thread since it only allows running it in main thread.

The problem is that SSHLibrary() automatically tries to call logger.log_background_messages() in it's close function.

From the source code I can see the following snippet

def close(self):
"""Closes the connection."""
if self.tunnel:
self.tunnel.close()
self._sftp_client = None
self._scp_transfer_client = None
self._scp_all_client = None
self._shell = None
self.client.close()
try:
logger.log_background_messages()
except AttributeError:
pass​

Which means that closing any SSH connection in a thread would raise an RuntimeError if you have robotbackgroundlogger installed, since you are not allowed to run the function logger.log_background_messages() unless in the main thread.

How can I disable so that SSHLibrary does not try to run logger.log_background_messages when I close my SSH connection? Or some other workaround to make it work?

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