How to decrypt Blowfish-encrypted text encrypted with Perl's Crypt::CBC?

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I've been a Perl writer for 20 years, and I'm just getting started with Python. I have a text file with some fields that were encrypted using Perl's Crypt::CBC and stored as hex. Here's how I currently decrypt it in Perl:

Output:
use Crypt::CBC;

my $text = <encrypted hex string>;
my $cipher_type = 'Blowfish';
my $encrypt_key = <my 64 byte key>;
my $cipher = Crypt::CBC->new(-key => $encrypt_key,
                             -cipher => $cipher_type);
my $decoded_text = $cipher->decrypt_hex($text);

No salt was specified during the encryption. I want to be able to decrypt the hex string from within a Python script. Converting from hex to a string is straightforward enough, but apparently Blowfish is restricted to <= 56-byte keys, which leaves me really confused (I'm unclear as to how the Perl Blowfish decryption is using those 64 bytes, and how to do the same in Python). Help!