some cleanups

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)