Russian language. When sending a message to the bot in Russian, the console displays an error. When sending in English - everything is in order.
#! /usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from vk_api.longpoll import VkLongPoll, VkEventType import vk_api from datetime import datetime vk_session = vk_api.VkApi(token="токен") session_api = vk_session.get_api() longpoll = VkLongPoll(vk_session) for event in longpoll.listen(): if event.type == VkEventType.MESSAGE_NEW: print('Сообщение пришло в: ' + str(datetime.strftime(datetime.now(), "%H:%M:%S"))) print('Текст сообщения: ' + str(event.text)) print(event.user_id) 