MySQL Connector/Python Developer Guide / ... / Connector/Python API Reference / connection.MySQLConnection Class / MySQLConnection.shutdown() Method
This method closes the socket. It raises no exceptions.
Unlikedisconnect(),shutdown() closes the client connection without attempting to send aQUIT command to the server first. Thus, it will not block if the connection is disrupted for some reason such as network failure.
shutdown() was added in Connector/Python 2.0.1.