title: Python: declare input as variable (specifically, dictionary)
body: <p>New to Python and programming in general, and maybe I'm asking the question wrong, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. 
  So, I'm trying to take an input:</p>
  
  <pre><code>user = input('What is your character's name?")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And define it as a dictionary to then be added to as they add stats, program does math for derived stats and adds to them, that type of stuff. </p>
  
  <p>So, if the input is 'John Doe', and I strip the whitespace out:</p>
  
  <pre><code>usr = ''.join(user.split())
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I then take the resulting string 'JohnDoe', and define it as a dictionary type? I'm keeping this in program to get more comfortable with it, then I'll eventually be looking to create files that it will load/save for different users with a GUI and everything. But that's very long term right now. I do take this and print a formatted sheet using the keys of the dictionary. </p>