Convert a namedtuple into a dictionary

I have a named tuple class in python

class Town(collections.namedtuple('Town', [
    'name', 
    'population',
    'coordinates',
    'population', 
    'capital', 
    'state_bird'])):
    # ...

I’d like to convert Town instances into dictionaries. I don’t want it to be rigidly tied to the names or number of the fields in a Town.

Is there a way to write it such that I could add more fields, or pass an entirely different named tuple in and get a dictionary.

I can not alter the original class definition as its in someone else’s code. So I need to take an instance of a Town and convert it to a dictionary.