Killing Python webservers

Question

I am looking for a simple Python webserver that is easy to kill from within code. Right now, I'm playing with Bottle, but I can't find any way at all to kill it in code. If you know how to kill Bottle (in code, no Ctrl+C) that would be super, but I'll take anything that's Python, simple, and killable.

Answer 1

Raise exeption and handle it in main or use sys.exit

Answer 2

Try putting

import sys

at the top and the command

sys.exit(0)

In the code that handles the "kill request".

Answer 3

We use this.

import os
os._exit(3)

To crash in a 'controlled' way.

Answer 4

If you want to kill a process from Python, on a Unix-like platform, you can send signals equivalent to Ctrl-C at the console using Pythons os module e.g.

# Get this processes PID
pid_of_process = os.getpid()
# Send the interrupt signal to this process
os.kill(pid_of_process, signal.SIGINT)