*# Copyright (c) 2009 Paul Gebheim...
import sys
import socket
import array
from optparse import OptionParser
from Cryptodome.Cipher import Blowfish
from Cryptodome.Hash import MD5
TELNET_PORT = 23
# The version of Blowfish supplied for the telenetenable.c implementation
# assumes Big-Endian data, but the code does nothing to convert the
# little-endian stuff it's getting on intel to Big-Endian
#
# So, since Crypto.Cipher.Blowfish seems to assume native endianness, we need
# to byteswap our buffer before and after encrypting it
#
# This helper does the byteswapping on the string buffer
def ByteSwap(data):
  a = array.array('i')
  if(a.itemsize < 4):
    a = array.array('L')

  if(a.itemsize != 4):
    print("Need a type that is 4 bytes on your platform so we can fix the data!")
    exit(1)
  a.fromstring(data)
  a.byteswap()
  return a.tostring()
def GeneratePayload(mac, username, password=""):
  # Pad the input correctly
  assert(len(mac) < 0x10)
  just_mac = mac.ljust(0x10, "\x00")
  assert(len(username) <= 0x10)
  just_username = username.ljust(0x10, "\x00")

  assert(len(password) <= 0x10)
  just_password = password.ljust(0x10, "\x00")
  cleartext = (just_mac + just_username + just_password).ljust(0x70, '\x00')
  md5_key = MD5.new(cleartext).digest()
  payload = ByteSwap((md5_key + cleartext).ljust(0x80, "\x00"))

  secret_key = "AMBIT_TELNET_ENABLE+" + password
  return ByteSwap(Blowfish.new(secret_key, 1).encrypt(payload))
def SendPayload(ip, payload):
  for res in socket.getaddrinfo(ip, TELNET_PORT, socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.IPPROTO_IP):
    af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
    try:
      s = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
    except socket.error as msg:
      s = None
      continue
    try:
      s.connect(sa)
    except socket.error as msg:
      s.close()
      s= None
      continue
    break
  if s is None:
    print ("Could not connect to '%s:%d'") % (ip, TELNET_PORT)
  else:
    s.send(payload)
    s.close()
    print ("Sent telnet enable payload to '%s:%d'") % (ip, TELNET_PORT)

def main():
  args = sys.argv[1:]
  if len(args) < 3 or len(args) > 4:
    print ("usage: python telnetenable.py <ip> <mac> <username> [<password>]")
  ip = args[0]
  mac = args[1]
  username = args[2]
  password = ""
  if len(args) == 4:
    password = args[3]
  payload = GeneratePayload(mac, username, password)
  SendPayload(ip, payload)
main()*

md5_key = MD5.new(cleartext).digest()

is where I get the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "telnetenable.py", line 113, in <module>
    main()
  File "telnetenable.py", line 110, in main
    payload = GeneratePayload(mac, username, password)
  File "telnetenable.py", line 64, in GeneratePayload
    md5_key = MD5.new(cleartext).digest()
  File "C:\Users\farme\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\Cryptodome\Hash\MD5.py", line 47, in __init__
    self._h = _hash_new(*args)
TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing