I had something along the line that numpy doesn't play nice with lists of lists but lists of tuples are fine. I am not sure what you want exactly since I don't want to crank up arcmap to test, but have a look at this done in the commandline ... hopefully it will give you an array to use as a table.
>>> a =[ ['Route.mxd', 'False', 'Emirates_Route', 'route.shp', '0.0'],['Route.mxd', 'False', 'World Cities', 'cities', '50.0'],
['Updated.mxd', 'True', 'Meter1', 'Meter1', '0.0'],['Updated.mxd', 'True', 'Meter1', 'Meter1', '0.0']]
>>> a
[['Route.mxd', 'False', 'Emirates_Route', 'route.shp', '0.0'], ['Route.mxd', 'False', 'World Cities', 'cities', '50.0'],
['Updated.mxd', 'True', 'Meter1', 'Meter1', '0.0'], ['Updated.mxd', 'True', 'Meter1', 'Meter1', '0.0']]
>>> import numpy as np
>>> b = []
>>> for i in a:
... b.append(tuple(i))
...
>>> b
[('Route.mxd', 'False', 'Emirates_Route', 'route.shp', '0.0'), ('Route.mxd', 'False', 'World Cities', 'cities', '50.0'),
('Updated.mxd', 'True', 'Meter1', 'Meter1', '0.0'), ('Updated.mxd', 'True', 'Meter1', 'Meter1', '0.0')]
>>> dtype=[('Map', '|S45'), ('RelativePath', '|S5'), ('LayerName', '|S35'), ('LayerFile', '|S85'), ('Scale', '|S15')]
>>> dtype
[('Map', '|S45'), ('RelativePath', '|S5'), ('LayerName', '|S35'), ('LayerFile', '|S85'), ('Scale', '|S15')]
>>> c = np.array(b,dtype)
>>> c
array([('Route.mxd', 'False', 'Emirates_Route', 'route.shp', '0.0'),
('Route.mxd', 'False', 'World Cities', 'cities', '50.0'),
('Updated.mxd', 'True', 'Meter1', 'Meter1', '0.0'),
('Updated.mxd', 'True', 'Meter1', 'Meter1', '0.0')],
dtype=[('Map', 'S45'), ('RelativePath', 'S5'), ('LayerName', 'S35'), ('LayerFile', 'S85'), ('Scale', 'S15')])
>>>
To which I should add, you can now call by fieldname
>>> c['Map']
array(['Route.mxd', 'Route.mxd', 'Updated.mxd', 'Updated.mxd'],
dtype='|S45')
>>> c['RelativePath']
array(['False', 'False', 'True', 'True'],
dtype='|S5')
>>> c['LayerName']
array(['Emirates_Route', 'World Cities', 'Meter1', 'Meter1'],
dtype='|S35')
>>> c['LayerFile']
array(['route.shp', 'cities', 'Meter1', 'Meter1'],
dtype='|S85')
>>> c['Scale']
array(['0.0', '50.0', '0.0', '0.0'],
dtype='|S15')
>>>