Noob Parsing question

[kai.peters at gmail.com]

Given

data = '{[<a=14^b=Fred^c=45.22^><a=22^b=Joe^><a=17^c=3.20^>][<a=72^b=Soup^>]}'

How can I efficiently get dictionaries for each of the data blocks framed by <> ?

Thanks for any help

KP