some cleanups

Author: topper-123

pandas/core/apply.py

@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ def agg_or_apply_list_like(
         is_groupby = isinstance(obj, (DataFrameGroupBy, SeriesGroupBy))
 
         is_ser_or_df = isinstance(obj, (ABCDataFrame, ABCSeries))
+        this_args = [self.axis, *self.args] if is_ser_or_df else self.args
+
         context_manager: ContextManager
         if is_groupby:
             # When as_index=False, we combine all results using indices
@@ -342,7 +344,6 @@ def include_axis(colg) -> bool:
             if selected_obj.ndim == 1:
                 for a in func:
                     colg = obj._gotitem(selected_obj.name, ndim=1, subset=selected_obj)
-                    this_args = [self.axis, *self.args] if is_ser_or_df else self.args
                     new_res = getattr(colg, op_name)(a, *this_args, **kwargs)
                     results.append(new_res)
 
@@ -354,7 +355,6 @@ def include_axis(colg) -> bool:
                 indices = []
                 for index, col in enumerate(selected_obj):
                     colg = obj._gotitem(col, ndim=1, subset=selected_obj.iloc[:, index])
-                    this_args = [self.axis, *self.args] if is_ser_or_df else self.args
                     new_res = getattr(colg, op_name)(func, *this_args, **kwargs)
                     results.append(new_res)
                     indices.append(index)