Convert a namedtuple into a dictionary

Question

I have a named tuple class in python

class Town(collections.namedtuple(\'Town\', [
    \'name\', 
    \'population\',
    \'coordinates\',
    \'population\         


        

Answer 1

if no _asdict(), you can use this way:

def to_dict(model):
    new_dict = {}
    keys = model._fields
    index = 0
    for key in keys:
        new_dict[key] = model[index]
        index += 1

    return new_dict