datetime - Converting to unix timestamp Python

Question

I am trying to convert a datestamp of now into Unix TimeStamp, however the code below seems to be hit but then just jumps to the end of my app, as in seems to not like the time.mktime part.

from datetime import datetime
import time

now = datetime.now()
toDayDate = now.replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
newDate = time.mktime(datetime.strptime(toDayDate, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").timetuple())
print(newDate)

Answer 1

Change

newDate = time.mktime(datetime.strptime(toDayDate, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").timetuple())

to

newDate = time.mktime(datetime.timetuple())

as an example I did:

from datetime import datetime
from time import mktime
t = datetime.now()
unix_secs = mktime(t.timetuple())

and got unix_secs = 1488214742.0