Pages with a large number of revisions are now deleted in batches of them since T198176: Mediawiki page deletions should happen in batches of revisions. However API returns an error when the deletion is scheduled successfully.
on pywikibot delete.py pywikibot.data.api.APIError: delete-scheduled: The page "Викивести:Време/Европа/Босна и Херцеговина/Бања Лука/ветар правац" is scheduled for deletion. Please be patient. [help:See https://sr.wikinews.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes.] <class 'pywikibot.data.api.APIError'> CRITICAL: Closing network session.
on APISandbox { "error": { "code": "delete-scheduled", "info": "The page \"\u0412\u0438\u043a\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438:\u0412\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435/\u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0430/\u0421\u0440\u0431\u0438\u0458\u0430/\u0412\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e \u0413\u0440\u0430\u0434\u0438\u0448\u0442\u0435/\u0443\u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0438\" is scheduled for deletion. Please be patient.", "*": "See https://sr.wikinews.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes." }, "servedby": "mw1341" }
Pywikibot scripts terminates abruptly because of the API error message which causes handling requests like T212346 to be slower than they should be. Thank you.