https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55179
--- Comment #4 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com --- Doesn't stop means it also hangs or runs into infinite loop?
btw. You should not use python < 2.7.2 on mediawiki sites. Do not use it with cosmetic changes and on several sites where the unicode bug is affected. In general you shouldn't use interwiki.py or featured.py which are dealing with multiple language sites.