How to create a Dict with a custom input name?

Question

How to create a Dict with a custom input name?
For Ex:
foo = raw_input(">> ")
>> bar
Desired Output:
bar = {}

Answer 1

It is a pain to use, but:
name = input("Name: ") #get custom name
exec(name+"={}") #initialize dictionary
print(name+"=", end="") #output string
print(eval(name)) #output dictionary