R. David Murray added the comment: I'm not sure this is a good idea. $BAR is supported on the command line because your shell supports it. To support it in files, argparse would have to (re)implement shell parsing, and while we do have a parser in the stdlib that can do some of this (shlex), actually implementing environment variable substitution correctly would be a non-trivial undertaking. And what about the csh users? (Assuming there are any left :)
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