["python","d3.js","simplehttpserver"]
How do I shut down a python simpleHTTPserver?

So I'm trying to learn d3, and the wiki suggested that To view the examples locally, you must have a local web server. Any web server will work; for example you can run Python's built-in server: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 & Great... only now I have a server running... but at some point I think I should probably shut that down again. Is there a better way of shutting it down than using kill <pid>? That seems like kind of a big hammer for a little job. (I'm running Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)) FWIW: ctrl+c gives about 10 lines of traceback, complaining about being interrupted. kill -3 <pid> gives a Finder warning in a separate window 'Python quit unexpectedly'. The default kill <pid> and kill -15 <pid> are relatively clean (and simple).
You are simply sending signals to the processes. kill is a command to send those signals. The keyboard command Ctrl+C sends a SIGINT, kill -9 sends a SIGKILL, and kill -15 sends a SIGTERM. What signal do you want to send to your server to end it?