gh-38458: simplify conversion code in cubic Hecke
I could not manage to get rid of `sage_eval` there.
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URL: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/38458
Reported by: Frédéric Chapoton
Reviewer(s): Travis Scrimshaw
