YAML comparison using deepdiff - exclude_paths formatting not working

Question

We are using DeepDiff for comparing two YAML files and then wanted to exclude certain paths for comparison

• File1 dataset

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: myapp1
  labels:
    app: myapp
    env: prod
    customer: A

• File2 dataset

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: myapp2
  labels:
    app: myapp
    env: dev
    customer: B

My code i tried, but the exclude_paths are not working as intended

from deepdiff import DeepDiff

# Unfortunately the exclude_paths is forced on us from a separate team in below format
exclude_paths = ["metadata.labels.env", "metadata.labels.annotation"]

print(DeepDiff(test1, test2, ignore_order=True, exclude_paths=exclude_paths))

Unfortunately the exclude_paths is forced on us from a separate team in a text file and we convert that to a list

    with open(args.exeception_list) as f:
        exp = f.read().splitlines()

which makes into below format

exclude_paths = ["metadata.labels.env", "metadata.labels.annotation"]

If i change the exclude_paths to below format it works

exclude_paths = ["['metadata']['labels']['env']", "['metadata']['labels']['annotation']"]

I couldn't find an easy way to convert dot notation to 'square bracket & single quote' format.

Any better approaches rather than converting the metadata.labels.env to ['metadata']['labels']['env'] in a convoluted manner? thanks in advance