changed to dictionary unpacking to support python 3.8

Author: joshy

striprtf/striprtf.py

@@ -89,30 +89,33 @@
 # and section characters reset formatting
 sectionchars = {"par": "\n", "sect": "\n\n", "page": "\n\n"}
 specialchars = {
-    "line": "\n",
-    "tab": "\t",
-    "emdash": "\u2014",
-    "endash": "\u2013",
-    "emspace": "\u2003",
-    "enspace": "\u2002",
-    "qmspace": "\u2005",
-    "bullet": "\u2022",
-    "lquote": "\u2018",
-    "rquote": "\u2019",
-    "ldblquote": "\u201C",
-    "rdblquote": "\u201D",
-    "row": "\n",
-    "cell": "|",
-    "nestcell": "|",
-    "~": "\xa0",
-    "\n": "\n",
-    "\r": "\r",
-    "{": "{",
-    "}": "}",
-    "\\": "\\",
-    "-": "\xad",
-    "_": "\u2011",
-} | sectionchars
+    **{
+        "line": "\n",
+        "tab": "\t",
+        "emdash": "\u2014",
+        "endash": "\u2013",
+        "emspace": "\u2003",
+        "enspace": "\u2002",
+        "qmspace": "\u2005",
+        "bullet": "\u2022",
+        "lquote": "\u2018",
+        "rquote": "\u2019",
+        "ldblquote": "\u201C",
+        "rdblquote": "\u201D",
+        "row": "\n",
+        "cell": "|",
+        "nestcell": "|",
+        "~": "\xa0",
+        "\n": "\n",
+        "\r": "\r",
+        "{": "{",
+        "}": "}",
+        "\\": "\\",
+        "-": "\xad",
+        "_": "\u2011",
+    },
+    **sectionchars,
+}
 
 PATTERN = re.compile(
     r"\\([a-z]{1,32})(-?\d{1,10})?[ ]?|\\'([0-9a-f]{2})|\\([^a-z])|([{}])|[\r\n]+|(.)",