How to solve python error?

Question

Python

error with this ssl, spent 3-4 hours did not solve it. Help.
Bot for VK
Code

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import requests

import vk_api
from vk_api import VkUpload
from vk_api.longpoll import VkLongPoll, VkEventType

def main():
    session = requests.Session()

    login, password = 'мой логин', 'мой пароль'
    vk_session = vk_api.VkApi(login, password)

    try:
        vk_session.auth(token_only=True)
    except vk_api.AuthError as error_msg:
        print(error_msg)
        return

    vk = vk_session.get_api()

    longpoll = VkLongPoll(vk_session)

    for event in longpoll.listen():
        if event.type == VkEventType.MESSAGE_NEW and event.to_me and event.text:
            print('id{}: "{}"'.format(event.user_id, event.text), end=' ')

            attachments = []
            text = 'Ты сказал "{}"'.format(event.text)
            vk.messages.send(
                user_id=event.user_id,
                attachment=','.join(attachments),
                message=text
            )
            print('ok')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

mistake

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 578, in urlopen
    chunked=chunked)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 351, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 814, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 289, in connect
    ssl_version=resolved_ssl_version)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 308, in ssl_wrap_socket
    return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\ssl.py", line 407, in wrap_socket
    _context=self, _session=session)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\ssl.py", line 814, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "C:\Python36\lib\ssl.py", line 1068, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
  File "C:\Python36\lib\ssl.py", line 689, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:841)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 403, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 604, in urlopen
    raise SSLError(e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:841)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\asus\Desktop\take\vk-bot.py", line 40, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Users\asus\Desktop\take\vk-bot.py", line 16, in main
    vk_session.auth(token_only=True)
  File "C:\Users\asus\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\vk_api\vk_api.py", line 169, in auth
    self._auth_token(reauth=reauth)
  File "C:\Users\asus\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\vk_api\vk_api.py", line 220, in _auth_token
    self._vk_login()
  File "C:\Users\asus\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\vk_api\vk_api.py", line 241, in _vk_login
    response = self.http.get('https://vk.com/')
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 487, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 475, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 585, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 477, in send
    raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:841)
[Finished in 0.7s with exit code 1]
[shell_cmd: python -u "C:\Users\asus\Desktop\take\vk-bot.py"]
[dir: C:\Users\asus\Desktop\take]
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Answer 1

It is worth checking the Python version and immediately updating all packages, in particular urllib, requests and the vk wrapper.

Answer 2

pip install -U certifi
did not help?

Answer 3

Pihon doesn't like the site's certificate. It probably doesn't know the auth authority that signed that site's certificate. Pihon needs to specify the CA certificate in the ssl context. Or add the CA certificate to the pihon's certificate store (ask pip to put a package of something like ca-certificates, all root new ones are there). Or ask them to ignore stupid certificates and not complain about them.
The point is that pihon doesn't use the OS certificate store normally.