Turning array specified string into array

Question

I have this spit out from my data acquisition:

data = "[[[array([-9.99999773e-01,  6.74083498e-04]), array([ 9.99999773e-01, -6.74083498e-04])], [array([ 9.99999773e-01, -6.74083498e-04]), array([ 9.99999773e-01, -6.74083498e-04])]]]"

the type of data is string, as I tested.

Is there any way to turn this into array form? For example:

data = [[[np.array([-9.99999773e-01,  6.74083498e-04]), np.array([ 9.99999773e-01, -6.74083498e-04])], [np.array([ 9.99999773e-01, -6.74083498e-04]), np.array([ 9.99999773e-01, -6.74083498e-04])]]]

This worked for my further analysis using python.

Answer 1

this should work:

exec("data = " + data.replace("array","np.array"))

basically you replace array with np.array and then execute the resulting string as python code